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Henry A. Wallace

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Henry Agard Wallace was the 33rd vice president of the United States, serving from 1941 to 1945 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and earlier the 11th United States secretary of agriculture. Outside politics he founded the Hi-Bred Corn Company, a hybrid corn seed company that became extremely successful, and after leaving public office he returned to agricultural business, developing and marketing hybrid seed corn and improved chickens until his death in 1965. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Birth Year
1888 1
Death Year
1965 1
Nationality
American 1
Defining Contribution
As U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under Franklin D. Roosevelt, he presided over a major shift in federal agricultural policy to curtail surpluses and reduce rural poverty, and separately founded the Hi-Bred Corn Company, a pioneering hybrid corn seed business. 1
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What did Henry A. Wallace do in agriculture before and alongside his political career?

He edited a farm magazine and built a hybrid-corn business.

Britannica describes Wallace as an agricultural expert. He worked for Wallace's Farmer, a magazine founded by his father and grandfather, and became its editor in 1921. His experiments with higher-yielding corn strains resulted in major advances in plant genetics, which he later developed into a highly profitable hybrid-corn business. As secretary of agriculture under Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 to 1940 he shaped farm policy, including the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, which was designed to raise and stabilize farm prices, conserve soil, store reserves and control production.
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United States Department of Agriculture, Institutions

United States Secretary of Agriculture, 1933-1940.

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United States

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Source Wikidata: Henry A. Wallace
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1. Henry A. Wallace (Wikipedia)
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  • Lead section, paragraph 2
    founded the Hi-Bred Corn Company, a hybrid corn company that became extremely successful
  • Lead section, opening parenthetical (birth)
    October 7, 1888
  • Lead section, opening parenthetical (death)
    November 18, 1965
  • Lead section, opening sentence (office)
    was the 33rd vice president of the United States, serving from 1941 to 1945, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • Lead section, paragraph 3 (Agriculture Secretary)
    He strongly supported the New Deal and presided over a major shift in federal agricultural policy, implementing measures designed to curtail agricultural surpluses and to ameliorate rural poverty.
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Wikidata: Henry A. Wallace
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