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Jun 3, 2019 · Henry Agard Wallace (1888 –1965) was the 33rd Vice President of the United States, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Secretary of Commerce. In the 1948 presidential election, Wallace was the nominee of the Progressive Party. Wallace occupies a unique niche within American history, at the crossroads of some of the 20th century's most ...
Henry Agard Wallace was born on a farm near Orient, Iowa in Adair County on October 8, 1888. The Wallace’s were one of Iowa’s best known farm families. As a youngster his first passions were science and farming. He was eight years old when the family moved to a farm on the outskirts of Des Moines.
Henry Wallace: A Divided Mind. A native of Colorado who entered Amherst with the Class of 1918, GARDNER JACKSON started what he calls his checkered career, after getting out of the Army in the ...
Oct 18, 2023 · Henry Agard Wallace was born on October 7, 1888, at his family’s farm in Adair County, Iowa. His father, Henry Cantwell Wallace, was a farmer and publisher of farm journals, who would later become a professor of agriculture at Iowa State University and served as a secretary of agriculture under both presidents Harding and Coolidge.
Henry Agard Wallace (October 7, 1888 – November 18, 1965) was the 33rd vice president of the United States (1941–45). He was also the eleventh Secretary of Agriculture (1933–40). In addition, he was the tenth Secretary of Commerce (1945–46). In 1948, he ran for president as a member of the Progressive Party . Preceded by.
The Progressive Party was a left-wing political party in the United States that served as a vehicle for the campaign of Henry A. Wallace, a former vice president, to become President of the United States in 1948. The party sought racial desegregation, the establishment of a national health insurance system, an expansion of the welfare system ...
Jan 9, 2024 · In a new book filled with political drama and intrigue, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Senior Fellow Benn Steil offers the richest and deepest biographical study to date of Henry A. Wallace ...
