- Ann Veneman
Ann M. Veneman is first UNICEF Executive Director to visit Swaziland © UNICEF/HQ05-0695/Nesbitt UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman joins children at the Dvumbe Primary School, south-east of Mbabane, Swaziland.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson (August 4, 1899 - May 30, 1994) was the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1985 until his death. Earlier he served as United States Secretary of Agriculture for both of the administrations of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
- Earl Butz
Earl Lauer Butz (born July 3, 1909) is a former United States government official who served as Secretary of Agriculture under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
- Henry A. Wallace
Henry Agard Wallace (October 7, 1888 - November 18, 1965) was the thirty-third Vice President of the United States (1941-45), the eleventh Secretary of Agriculture (1933-40), and the tenth Secretary of Commerce (1945-46). In the 1948 presidential election, Wallace was the nominee of the Progressive Party.
- Patty Judge
Patty Jean Judge is the current Lieutenant Governor and former Secretary of Agriculture in the U.S State of Iowa. She was elected to the office in 2006, after unsuccessfully seeking the Democratic Party nomination for the 2006 Iowa gubernatorial election. Before serving as Agriculture Secretary, she was elected to the Iowa Senate in 1992, and re-elected in 1996.
- Mike Espy
Alphonso Michael Espy, usually called Mike Espy, (born November 30, 1953) was a U.S. political figure. From 1987 to 1993, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Mississippi. He served as the Secretary of Agriculture from 1993 to 1994. He was the first African American Secretary of Agriculture.
- Charles F. Brannan
Charles Franklin Brannan (August 23,1903 - July 2, 1992) was the Secretary of Agriculture from 1948 to 1953. He was born in Denver, Colorado, and received his law degree from the University of Denver in 1929. Beginning in 1935, he held a series of legal and administrative position with the United States government, culminating as the Secretary of Agriculture in 1948. In 1949, he advocated the Brannan plan, as part of president Truman's Fair Deal program.
- Claude R. Wickard
Claude Raymond Wickard (1893-1967), born in Indiana, Secretary of Agriculture under President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1940 to 1945. Graduated from Purdue University in 1915, with a bachelor's degree in agriculture. Elected to Indiana State Senate in 1932, served as a Food Administrator for four months in 1942. Resigned in 1945 to become administrator for the Rural Electrification Administration, until 1953. Wickard died in 1967.
- Henry Cantwell Wallace
Henry Cantwell Wallace (1866-1924) was a United States farm leader. He served as the Secretary of Agriculture between 1921 and 1924. He was the father of Henry Agard Wallace. He was editor of Wallaces' Farmer 1916 - 1921. Son of "Uncle Henry", who was a prominent farm journalist and counselor to statesmen, Henry C. (Harry) Wallace was born in Rock Island, Illinois. He graduated from and was a professor of dairy science at Iowa State College.
- Julius Sterling Morton
J. Sterling Morton (April 22, 1832 - April 27, 1902) was President Grover Cleveland's Secretary of Agriculture. He was a prominent Bourbon Democrat. Morton was born in Adams, Jefferson County, New York. He was raised in Detroit and attended the University of Michigan. After receiving his diploma in 1854, he moved with his bride to Nebraska, which was not yet organized as a territory, and staked a claim in Nebraska City.
- Robert Bergland
Robert Selmer Bergland (born July 22, 1928 in Roseau, Minnesota) is a United States politician. He grew up on a farm (where he still lives) near Roseau, and studied agriculture at the University of Minnesota in a two year program. He became an official with the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service United States Department of Agriculture from 1963 to 1968.
- Reed Smoot
Reed Smoot was the first Latter Day Saint to serve in the United States Senate. Smoot was also a prominent leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, serving as an Apostle and as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles from 1900 until his death. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Smoot — the son of Mormon pioneer and former mayor of Salt Lake City, …
- Paul Morton
Paul Morton was a U.S. businessman. He served as the Secretary of Navy between 1904 and 1905. He was the son of Julius Sterling Morton, who had served as Secretary of Agriculture under President Grover Cleveland.
- Clayton Keith Yeutter
Clayton Keith Yeutter (born December 10, 1930) in Eustis, Nebraska. He served U.S. Trade Representative between 1985 and 1989, as Secretary of Agriculture from 1989 until 1991 and chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1991 and 1992.
- Lee Pressman
Lee Pressman was an American attorney and activist. He worked for Federal government agencies and labor unions, and is known for admitting his role in the Ware group of Communist-led government employees aiding Soviet intelligence agents. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace appointed Pressman assistant general counsel of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) in 1933. In 1934 he became active in the Ware group.
- Steve Benson
Stephen R. Benson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning liberal U.S. editorial cartoonist for "The Arizona Republic". Benson is the grandson of former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and former LDS Church president Ezra Taft Benson. Benson's more controversial cartoons include one that depicts a firefighter carrying a child from the Oklahoma City bombing similar to a well-known photo of a firefighter's futile rescue of 1-year old Baylee Almon.
- William Marion Jardine
William Marion Jardine was a U.S. administrator and educator. He served as the Secretary of Agriculture from 1925 to 1929 and as the U.S. Ambassador to Egypt in 1930.
- Francisco Labastida
Francisco Labastida Ochoa (born August 14, 1942 in Los Mochis, Sinaloa) is a Mexican economist and politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), who became the first presidential candidate of his party to lose a presidential election, which he did in the 2000 presidential election to Vicente Fox. He was born to Gloria Ochoa de Labastida and Dr. Eduardo Labastida Kofahl.
- Jeremiah McLain Rusk
Jeremiah McLain Rusk (June 17, 1830 - November 21, 1893) was the 15th Governor of the U.S. state of Wisconsin from 1882 to 1889. Rusk was born in Malta, Ohio. He was a member of the Republican Party. He began as a planter, then turned to innkeeping and finally to banking before the Civil War. During the war, he received a brevet appointment as a general and saw action at Antietam with the 26th Wisconsin Volunteers, which was almost wiped out.
- Garrey Carruthers
Dr. Garrey Carruthers is dean of the NMSU College of Business Administration and Economics. Carruthers previously served as president and CEO of the Cimarron Health Plan and was governor of New Mexico from 1987 to 1990. He is a former Assistant U.S. Secretary of the Interior and former special assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.
- John Rusling Block
John Rusling Block (born February 15, 1935 in Galesburg, Illinois) was an American politician. He came from a strongly rural background where the home had no electricity. He graduated from West Point in 1957 and served in 101st Airborne. After that he ran a successful agribusiness. He is a staunch Republican whose agriculture successes formed the basis for his positions with the governor.
- Edward Rell Madigan
Edward Rell Madigan (January 13, 1936-December 7, 1994) was a businessman and a Republican party politician from Lincoln, Illinois. He served almost twenty years in the United States House of Representatives and was U.S. Secretary of Agriculture for George H. W. Bush. Madigan was born in Lincoln and attended Lincoln [Junior] College before starting his own taxicab business. He entered public service as a member of the Lincoln Board of Zoning Appeals from 1965 to 1969.
- Richard Edmund Lyng
Richard Edmund Lyng (June 29, 1918-February 1, 2003) was a U.S. administrator. A Republican, he served as the Secretary of Agriculture between 1986 and 1989. Lyng was born in San Francisco, California, and served in the U.S. Army during World War II. Fellow soldiers, impressed with Lyng's rich baritone voice, urged him to explore a music career after the war, which he did, scoring a series of regional hits with a do-wop quartet called the Ding-a-Lyngs.
- John Albert Knebel
John Albert Knebel was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA in 1936. He went on to graduate from West Point in 1959 and received his Master's at Creighton University in 1962. In 1965 he received his law degree from American University. He was an assistant to Congressman J. Ernest Wharton and served as general counsel to the Small Business Administration during Nixon's second term.
- Tom Vilsack
Tom Vilsack understands the importance of NRCS (Natural Resources Conservation Service) programs that help producers protect our natural resources and provide stewardship of the land we all depend upon for our food production," Hoffman said. "As governor, he was very supportive of ISA environmental and conservation initiatives, and saw the value of biotechnology and its importance in meeting future demands while protecting our natural resources.
- Mike Johanns
Mike Johanns was sworn in as the 28th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on January 21, 2005. Secretary Johanns' strong agricultural roots stretch back to his childhood. He was born in Iowa and grew up doing chores on his family's dairy farm. As the son of a dairy farmer, he developed a deep respect for the land and the people who work it. He still describes himself as "a farmer's son with an intense passion for agriculture."
- Carlos Hank González
Carlos Hank González, nicknamed "El Profesor" ("the professor"), was a Mexican politician. He served as the mayor of Mexico City from 1975 to 1982 (at the time an unelected cabinet-level appointment made by the President), governor of his native State of México from 1969 to 1975, and, during the administration of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, as Secretary of Tourism from 1988 to 1990 and Secretary of Agriculture from 1990 to 1994.
- Pete Sorenson
Pete Sorenson (born in Washoe County, Nevada) is lawyer, member of the Democratic Party and a County Commissioner in Lane County, Oregon. From 1977 to 1979, he was a Special Assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture during the Carter Administration. While in private practice from 1982 to 1995, he also served as a member of the Board of Education at Lane Community College in Eugene Oregon.
- Cyrus Avery
Cyrus Stevens Avery (1871-1963) was known as the "Father of Route 66". He created the route while a member of the federal board appointed to create the Federal Highway System, then pushed for the establishment of the U.S. Highway 66 Association to pave and promote the highway. He was born in Pennsylvania and his family moved to Oklahoma (then Indian Territory) when he was 14. He graduated from William Jewell College, married, …
- George William Russell
George William Russell who wrote under the pseudonym Æ, was an Anglo-Irish supporter of the Nationalist movement in Ireland, a critic, poet, and painter. He was also a mystical writer, and centre of a group of followers of theosophy in Dublin, for many years. He is not to be confused with George William Erskine Russell (1853 - 1919).
- William M. Roth
William Matson Roth was a shipping executive, special ambassador for trade, member of the ACLU executive committee, and Regent for the University of California. In 1966 he was targeted (along with Clark Kerr and Elinor Raas Heller) by a fellow Regent, Edwin Pauley, for his alleged 'ultra-liberal' views. Ronald Reagan made the Free Speech Movement and Opposition to the Vietnam War on the Berkeley campus one of his major campaign issues.
- Michael O. Freeman
Michael O. "Mike" Freeman, (b. May 7, 1948), is a Minnesota attorney and politician in the United States. He is currently the County Attorney of Hennepin County. He is the son of Orville Freeman (former Governor of Minnesota and Secretary of Agriculture). Freeman received a B.A. from Rutgers University and a J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School.
- Elmer H. Wene
Elmer H. Wene (May 1, 1892 - January 25, 1957) was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1937-1939 and again from 1941-1945. Wene was born on a farm near Pittstown, New Jersey. He attended the public schools and Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. In 1918, he engaged in agricultural pursuits near Vineland, New Jersey.
- Miguel Ángel de Quevedo
Miguel Ángel de Quevedo was a Mexican architect, engineer, and environmentalist who founded Mexico City's Viveros de Coyoacán arboretum, as well as numerous other construction projects in Mexico City, and throughout the country, and promoted the conservation of Mexico's forests. Don Miguel Ángel de Quevedo was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, in 1862. He is called "el apóstol del árbol" ("the tree apostle") for his dedication to the defense of Mexico's forests.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson was born February 22, 1811, in Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts. As a young man he moved his family west to the vicinity of Nauvoo, Illinois, where after meeting Mormon refugees from Missouri and hearing anti-Mormon preaching they became interested in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and were baptized July 19, 1840. He served missions for his new church and after being driven by mobs from Illinois with the Saints was called to be an Apostle.
- Clayton Yeutter
Clayton Yeutter. Former U.S. Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter shares his thoughts on U.S. farm policy and international trade issues in a One on One interview with SIU Public Policy Institute Director Paul Simon .
- Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev served as leader of the Soviet Union from 1985-1991. He is world-renowned and admired for streamlining and decentralizing the oppressive system he inherited. In an effort to secure relations with the West, Gorbachev signed two broad disarmament pacts, and ended Communist rule in Eastern Europe. He taught the world two new words: perestroika (governmental restructuring) and glasnost (political openness).
- Henry Wallace
Wallace was born on a farm near Orient , Adair County, Iowa , and graduated from Iowa State College at Ames in 1910 . He served on the editorial staff of Wallace's Farmer in Des Moines, Iowa from 1910 to 1924 and was editor from 1924 to 1929 . He experimented with breeding high-yielding strains of corn (maize), and was the author of many publications on agriculture. In 1915 he devised the first corn- hog ratio charts indicating probable course of markets.
- Adrian J. Polansky
Adrian J. Polansky Kansas Secretary of Agriculture
- Bill Wasserman
Bill Wasserman , President, brings a wealth of public policy and public relations experience to M+R. Before joining M+R, Bill served in the Clinton administration as director of the Office of Consumer Affairs at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, where he advised the secretary of Agriculture on consumer issues, conducted constituent briefings and public hearings on departmental programs and directed marketing campaigns to improve childhood nutrition.