Richard Edmund Lyng (June 29, 1918 – February 1, 2003) was a U.S. administrator. A Republican, he served as the Secretary of Agriculture between 1986 and 1989.
Lyng was born in San Francisco, California, and served in the U.S. Army during World War II. Fellow soldiers, impressed with Lyng's rich baritone voice, urged him to explore a music career after the war, which he did, scoring a series of regional hits with a do-wop quartet called the Ding-a-Lyngs. In the mid-1950s he went into business and eventually became president of the Ed. J. Lyng Co., a seed and bean processing company, and was appointed U.S. Secretary of Agriculture by President Reagan, serving from 1986 to 1989. Lyng died, from complications arising from Parkinson's Disease, in Modesto, California, on February 1, 2003.
Lyng was chosen as one of the charter members of the Meat Industry Hall of Fame in 2009.
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Preceded by
John R. Block |
United States Secretary of Agriculture
1986–1989 |
Succeeded by
Clayton K. Yeutter |
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United States Secretaries of Agriculture
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- Coleman
- Rusk
- Morton
- Wilson
- Houston
- Meredith
- HC Wallace
- Gore
- Jardine
- Hyde
- HA Wallace
- Wickard
- Anderson
- Brannan
- Benson
- Freeman
- Hardin
- Butz
- Knebel
- Bergland
- Block
- Lyng
- Yeutter
- Madigan
- Espy
- Glickman
- Veneman
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- Schafer
- Vilsack
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| Secretary of State |
- Alexander M. Haig, Jr. (1981–1982)
- George P. Shultz (1982–1989)
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| Secretary of the Treasury |
- Donald T. Regan (1981–1985)
- James A. Baker, III (1985–1988)
- Nicholas F. Brady (1988–1989)
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| Secretary of Defense |
- Caspar Weinberger (1981–1987)
- Frank C. Carlucci (1987–1989)
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| Attorney General |
- William French Smith (1981–1985)
- Edwin Meese III (1985–1988)
- Richard L. Thornburgh (1988–1989)
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| Secretary of the Interior |
- James G. Watt (1981–1983)
- William P. Clark, Jr. (1983–1985)
- Donald P. Hodel (1985–1989)
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| Secretary of Agriculture |
- John Rusling Block (1981–1986)
- Richard Edmund Lyng (1986–1989)
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| Secretary of Commerce |
- Malcolm Baldrige, Jr. (1981–1987)
- C. William Verity, Jr. (1987–1989)
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| Secretary of Labor |
- Raymond J. Donovan (1981–1985)
- William E. Brock (1985–1987)
- Ann Dore McLaughlin (1987–1989)
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| Secretary of Health and Human Services |
- Richard S. Schweiker (1981–1983)
- Margaret M. Heckler (1983–1985)
- Otis R. Bowen (1985–1989)
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| Secretary of Housing and Urban Development |
- Samuel R. Pierce, Jr. (1981–1989)
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| Secretary of Transportation |
- Andrew L. Lewis, Jr. (1981–1983)
- Elizabeth H. Dole (1983–1987)
- James H. Burnley IV (1988–1989)
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| Secretary of Energy |
- James B. Edwards (1981–1983)
- Donald P. Hodel (1983–1985)
- John S. Herrington (1985–1989)
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| Secretary of Education |
- T. H. Bell (1981–1985)
- William J. Bennett (1985–1988)
- Lauro F. Cavazos (1988–1989)
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| Vice President |
- George H. W. Bush (1981–1989)
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| Director of Central Intelligence |
- William J. Casey (1981–1987)
- William H. Webster (1987–1989)
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| Ambassador to the United Nations |
- Jeane Kirkpatrick (1981–1985)
- Vernon A. Walters (1985–1989)
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| Trade Representative |
- William E. Brock, III (1981–1985)
- Clayton Keith Yeutter (1985–1989)
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Lyng, Richard Edmund |
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June 29, 1918 |
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| Date of death |
February 1, 2003 |
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