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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—USHenry Agard WALLACE
(1888-1965)
WALLACE, Henry Agard, a
Vice President of the United States; born on a farm near Orient,
Adair County, Iowa, October 7, 1888; attended the public schools;
graduated from Iowa State College at Ames in 1910; served on the
editorial staff of Wallace’s Farmer, Des Moines, Iowa,
1910-1924 and was editor 1924-1929; experimented with breeding
high-yielding strains of corn 1913-1933; in 1915 devised the first
corn-hog ratio charts indicating probable course of markets; author
of many publications on agriculture; appointed Secretary of
Agriculture in the Cabinet of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in
1933 and served until September 1940, when he resigned, having been
nominated for Vice President; elected in November 1940 as Vice
President of the United States on the Democratic ticket with
President Franklin D. Roosevelt and was inaugurated January 20,
1941, for the term ending January 20, 1945; unsuccessful candidate
for renomination in 1944; appointed Secretary of Commerce and
served from March 1945 to September 1946; unsuccessful Progressive
candidate for election as President of the United States in 1948;
resumed his farming interests; was a resident of South Salem, N.Y.;
died in Danbury, Conn., November 18, 1965; remains were cremated at
Grace Cemetery in Bridgeport, Conn., and the ashes interred in
Glendale Cemetery, Des Moines, Iowa.
Bibliography
Wallace, Henry A. The Price of Vision: The Diary of Henry A.
Wallace, 1942-1946. John Morton Blum, ed. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1973; Culver, John C., and John Hyde. American Dreamer:
The Life and Times of Henry A. Wallace. New York: Norton,
2000.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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