United States Secretary of Agriculture

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The United States Secretary of Agriculture is the head of the United States Department of Agriculture concerned with land and food as well as agriculture and rural development. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet and ninth in line to succeed the President should the situation call for it.

The department includes several organizations. The 190 million acres (770,000 km²) of national forests and grasslands are managed by the United States Forest Service. The safety of food produced and sold here is ensured by the United States Food Safety and Inspection Service. The Food Stamp Program works with the states to provide food to low-income people. Advice for farmers and gardeners is provided by the United States Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service.

[edit] Secretaries of Agriculture

No.	Secretary of Agriculture	Term of Office	President(s) served under
1	Norman Jay Coleman	February 15, 1889 - March 6, 1889	Grover Cleveland
2	Jeremiah Rusk	March 6, 1889 - March 6, 1893	Benjamin Harrison
3	Julius Morton	March 7, 1893 - March 5, 1897	Grover Cleveland
4	James Wilson	March 6, 1897 - March 5, 1913	William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft
5	David Houston	March 6, 1913 - February 2, 1920	Woodrow Wilson
6	Edwin Meredith	February 2, 1920 - March 4, 1921
7	Henry Cantwell Wallace	March 5, 1921 - October 25, 1924	Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge
8	Howard Gore	November 22, 1924 - March 4, 1925	Calvin Coolidge
9	William Marion Jardine	March 5, 1925 - March 4, 1929
10	Arthur Hyde	March 6, 1929 - March 4, 1933	Herbert Hoover
11	Henry A. Wallace	March 4, 1933 - September 4, 1940	Franklin Roosevelt
12	Claude Wickard	September 5, 1940 - June 29, 1945	Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman
13	Clinton Anderson	June 30, 1945 - May 10, 1948	Harry Truman
14	Charles Brannan	June 2, 1948 - January 20, 1953
15	Ezra Benson	January 21, 1953 - January 20, 1961	Dwight Eisenhower
16	Orville Freeman	January 21, 1961 - January 20, 1969	John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson
17	Clifford Hardin	January 21, 1969 - November 17, 1971	Richard Nixon
18	Earl Butz	December 2, 1971 - October 4, 1976	Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford
19	John Knebel	November 4, 1976 - January 20, 1977	Gerald Ford
20	Robert Bergland	January 23, 1977 - January 20, 1981	Jimmy Carter
21	John Block	January 23, 1981 - February 14, 1986	Ronald Reagan
22	Richard Lyng	March 7, 1986 - January 21, 1989
23	Clayton Yeutter	February 16, 1989 - March 1, 1991	George H. W. Bush
24	Edward Madigan	March 8, 1991 - January 20, 1993
25	Michael Espy	January 22, 1993 - December 31, 1994	Bill Clinton
26	Daniel Glickman	March 30, 1995 - January 19, 2001
27	Ann Veneman	January 20, 2001 - January 20, 2005	George W. Bush
28	Mike Johanns	January 21, 2005 - present

[edit] References

• Secretary's Page. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved on 2005-10-07.

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