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    Henry A. Wallace died at age 77 in Danbury Hospital, Danbury, Connecticut, on November 18, 1965. Final rites were delivered and ashes interred at Glendale Cemetery in Des Moines. Henry A. Wallace’s pioneering achievements in science and agricultural reform are the lasting imprints of his life.

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    Henry Agard Wallace was born in 1888, in Adair County, Iowa. After graduating from Iowa State College in 1910, Wallace went to work for his family’s magazine, Wallace’s Farmer. He rose to become its editor in 1921. Wallace also experimented in plant genetics, which he used to establish the very successful Hi-Bred Corn Company. While his family was ...

    After deciding to seek an unprecedented third term in office, FDR also determined that he needed a new vice president. Without consulting with Democratic party leaders, he tapped Wallace for the job. Roosevelt was confident that if he could not fulfill his term, Wallace would continue to push the New Deal forward. When the delegates objected to his...

    Just 82 days after Wallace left office as vice president, President Roosevelt died, and Harry Truman assumed the presidency. Once in office, Truman adopted a hardline stance against the Soviet Union. Wallace strongly disagreed with the foreign policy decision and publicly spoke out against it during a public speech. Even though Wallace has cleared ...

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  3. Wallace, a lifelong Republican, endorses Democrat Al Smith for President, because he supports farm relief, and Wallace's belief that opponent Herbert Hoover, as Secretary of Commerce siding with corporations against small farmers, had essentially caused his father's premature stress-induced death.

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  5. 1945 and Wallace continued to serve under President Truman after Roosevelt died in April 1945. Truman dismissed Wallace in September 1946 after Wallace made several controversial comments. Wallace became the editor of The New Republic and emerged as a prominent critic of Truman's foreign policies.

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  6. Henry A. Wallace was an Iowan who made an impact on agriculture throughout the state, the nation and the world. His love for the soil and for agriculture was part of the Wallace family heritage. Wallace was a colorful and controversial public figure.

  7. In 1945, shortly before Roosevelt's death, he became secretary of commerce. He held that position until Sept., 1946, when he was forced to resign because of his open opposition to President Truman's foreign policy. He then edited (1946–48) The New Republic.

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