Political Life
Once a member of the Populists Party he became a Democrat running unsuccessfully for a U.S. Senate seat from Iowa in 1914. In 1916 he ran for the office of Governor for the state of Iowa, again unsuccessfully. President Woodrow Wilson appointed him to the Treasury Department's Advisory Committee on Excess Profits. Meredith was appointed Secretary of Agriculture in 1920. That same year, he ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for the presidency.
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