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/
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Defining ContributionAs 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 Connections
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United States Secretary of Agriculture, 1933-1940.
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1. Henry A. Wallace (Wikipedia)
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founded the Hi-Bred Corn Company, a hybrid corn company that became extremely successful
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October 7, 1888
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November 18, 1965
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was the 33rd vice president of the United States, serving from 1941 to 1945, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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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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