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Henry Wallace was born on a farm near Orient in Adair County, Iowa, on October 7, 1888. He graduated from Iowa State College in Ames in 1910. For most of the next two decades, until 1929, he was on the editorial staff of the family’s journal, the Wallace`s Farmer, which was published in Des Moines. During Wallace`s last five years, he was the ...
Henry A. Wallace was the 33rd Vice President of the United States under Franklin D. Roosevelt. He also served the Roosevelt administration as Secretary of Agriculture and Secretary of Commerce, and he championed the New Deal, which launched many of the economic programs and infrastructure we use today. Wallace ran for President on a platform of ...
Feb 3, 2013 · In the late 1930s and early 1940s, only FDR eclipsed Wallace – Roosevelt’s secretary of agriculture (1933-1940) and then his vice president (1941-1944) – in popularity with the American people. Stone’s documentary series and book portray Wallace as a true American hero, a “visionary” on both domestic and foreign policy.
Henry A. Wallace was a key champion and architect of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. Appointed to his father’s old job as Secretary of Agriculture in Roosevelt’s first term, he successfully pushed the president and Congress to include farmers in the package of reforms being developed for the economy.
Oct 7, 2013 · The third Henry Wallace was born in 1888, and grew up first on a farm and later in Des Moines. He studied agriculture at Iowa State, his senior thesis devoted to the topic of soil conservation. In ...
Commerce Secretary Henry A. Wallace—Secretary of Agriculture (1933–1941) and Vice-President from (1941–1945)—was one of the few liberal idealists in Truman’s cabinet. Wallace envisioned a “century of the common man” marked by global peace and prosperity.
Aug 3, 2016 · Six-year-old Wallace, who was born on October 7, 1888 in Orient, Iowa, to Henry Cantwell Wallace and May Brodhead Wallace, took an instant liking to the new boarder. Carver, who popularized peanuts and promoted systematic crop rotation, taught Wallace about farming and botany. The future vice president developed a strong interest in corn ...
