Claude Raymond Wickard (February 28, 1893 to April 29, 1967) was an American Democratic politician who served as Secretary of Agriculture from 1940 to 1945 under Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. During World War II he directed the War Food Administration under the slogan "Food Will Win the War and Write the Peace," and his department's wheat-marketing order became the subject of the landmark Supreme Court case Wickard v. Filburn, which established federal authority to regulate wheat grown for personal farm consumption. After leaving the department in 1945 he led the Rural Electrification Administration until 1953.
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Defining ContributionAs Secretary of Agriculture during World War II, Wickard directed wartime farm production programs and was on the winning side of Wickard v. Filburn, the Supreme Court case establishing that the federal government could regulate wheat grown for a farmer's own personal use. 1 In the Other Atlases
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Claude Raymond Wickard (February 28, 1893, April 29, 1967) was an American Democratic politician who served as the secretary of agriculture during the administrations of Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman from 1940 to 1945.
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Claude Raymond Wickard (February 28, 1893, April 29, 1967) was an American Democratic politician who served as the secretary of agriculture during the administrations of Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman from 1940 to 1945.
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He was on the winning side in Wickard v. Filburn, in which the U.S. Supreme Court decided in a case that the federal government could control wheat that was grown in one state for the personal use of a farmer.
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