Secretaries of Agriculture
The following is a list of Secretaries of Agriculture, since the creation of the office in 1889.
- Parties
Democratic Republican
| No. | Portrait | Name | State of Residence | Took Office | Left Office | President(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norman Jay Coleman | Missouri | February 15, 1889 | March 6, 1889 | Grover Cleveland | ||
| 2 | Jeremiah M. Rusk | Wisconsin | March 6, 1889 | March 6, 1893 | Benjamin Harrison | ||
| 3 | J. Sterling Morton | Nebraska | March 7, 1893 | March 5, 1897 | Grover Cleveland | ||
| 4 | James Wilson | Iowa | March 5, 1897 | March 3, 1913 | William McKinley | ||
| Theodore Roosevelt | |||||||
| William Howard Taft | |||||||
| 5 | David F. Houston | Missouri | March 6, 1913 | February 2, 1920 | Woodrow Wilson | ||
| 6 | Edwin T. Meredith | Iowa | February 2, 1920 | March 4, 1921 | |||
| 7 | Henry C. Wallace | Iowa | March 5, 1921 | October 25, 1924 | Warren G. Harding | ||
| Calvin Coolidge | |||||||
| 8 | Howard M. Gore | West Virginia | November 22, 1924 | March 4, 1925 | |||
| 9 | William M. Jardine | Kansas | March 5, 1925 | March 4, 1929 | |||
| 10 | Arthur M. Hyde | Missouri | March 6, 1929 | March 4, 1933 | Herbert Hoover | ||
| 11 | Henry A. Wallace | Iowa | March 4, 1933 | September 4, 1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | ||
| 12 | Claude R. Wickard | Indiana | September 5, 1940 | June 29, 1945 | |||
| Harry S. Truman | |||||||
| 13 | Clinton P. Anderson | New Mexico | June 30, 1945 | May 10, 1948 | |||
| 14 | Charles F. Brannan | Colorado | June 2, 1948 | January 20, 1953 | |||
| 15 | Ezra Taft Benson | Utah | January 21, 1953 | January 20, 1961 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | ||
| 16 | Orville L. Freeman | Minnesota | January 21, 1961 | January 20, 1969 | John F. Kennedy | ||
| Lyndon B. Johnson | |||||||
| 17 | Clifford M. Hardin | Nebraska | January 21, 1969 | November 17, 1971 | Richard Nixon | ||
| 18 | Earl L. Butz | Indiana | December 2, 1971 | October 4, 1976 | |||
| Gerald Ford | |||||||
| 19 | John A. Knebel | Oklahoma | November 4, 1976 | January 20, 1977 | |||
| 20 | Robert S. Bergland | Minnesota | January 23, 1977 | January 20, 1981 | Jimmy Carter | ||
| 21 | John R. Block | Illinois | January 23, 1981 | February 14, 1986 | Ronald Reagan | ||
| 22 | Richard E. Lyng | California | March 7, 1986 | January 21, 1989 | |||
| 23 | Clayton K. Yeutter | Nebraska | February 16, 1989 | March 1, 1991 | George H. W. Bush | ||
| 24 | Edward R. Madigan | Illinois | March 8, 1991 | January 20, 1993 | |||
| 25 | Mike Espy | Mississippi | January 22, 1993 | December 31, 1994 | Bill Clinton | ||
| 26 | Daniel R. Glickman | Kansas | March 30, 1995 | January 20, 2001 | |||
| 27 | Ann M. Veneman | California | January 20, 2001 | January 20, 2005 | George W. Bush | ||
| 28 | Michael O. Johanns | Nebraska | January 21, 2005 | September 20, 2007 | |||
| 29 | Ed Schafer | North Dakota | January 28, 2008 | January 20, 2009 | |||
| 30 | Tom Vilsack | Iowa | January 20, 2009 | Incumbent | Barack Obama | ||
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