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Henry Wallace, 1888-1965
Born into a prosperous Iowa farm family (his grandfather was Theodore Roosevelt's "country life commissioner"; his father, Harding's secretary of agriculture), Wallace was a leader in the fight against low farm prices in the 1920s. As Franklin Roosevelt's secretary of agriculture during the Great Depression, Wallace developed the controversial policy of limiting production, paying farmers to destroy crops and slaughter livestock. Wallace's policies failed to raise prices as high as they had been, but they achieved some success and became a model for later secretaries of agriculture. He became Roosevelt's running-mate in 1940 but was dropped from the ticket in 1944.
Jo Davidson, 1942 |