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United States Secretary of Agriculture

The United States Secretary of Agriculture is the head of the United States Department of Agriculture concerned with land and food as well as agriculture and rural development. He or she is a member of the President's Cabinet.

The department includes several organizations. The 190 million acres of national forests and grasslands are managed by the United States Forest Service. The safety of food produced and sold here is ensured by the United States Food Safety and Inspection Service[?]. Advice for farmers and gardeners is provided by the United States Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service[?].

Secretaries of Agriculture
Name	Term of Office	President(s) served under
Norman Jay Coleman[?]	February 15, 1889 - March 6, 1889	Grover Cleveland
Jeremiah McLain Rusk	March 6, 1889 - March 6, 1893	Benjamin Harrison
Julius Sterling Morton[?]	March 7, 1893 - March 5, 1897	Grover Cleveland
James Wilson[?]	March 6, 1897 - March 5, 1913	William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft
David Franklin Houston[?]	March 6, 1913 - February 2, 1920	Woodrow Wilson
Edwin Thomas Meredith[?]	February 2, 1920 - March 4, 1921	Woodrow Wilson
Henry Cantwell Wallace[?]	March 5, 1921 - October 25, 1924	Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge
Howard Mason Gore[?]	November 22, 1924 - March 4, 1925	Calvin Coolidge
William Marion Jardine[?]	March 5, 1925 - March 4, 1929	Calvin Coolidge
Arthur Mastick Hyde[?]	March 6, 1929 - March 4, 1933	Herbert Hoover
Henry Agard Wallace[?]	March 4, 1933 - September 4, 1940	Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Claude Raymond Wickard[?]	September 5, 1940 - June 29, 1945	Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman
Clinton Presba Anderson[?]	June 30, 1945 - May 10, 1948	Harry S. Truman
Charles Franklin Brannan[?]	June 2, 1948 - January 20, 1953	Harry S. Truman
Ezra Taft Benson[?]	January 21, 1953 - January 20, 1961	Dwight D. Eisenhower
Orville Lothrop Freeman	January 21, 1961 - January 20, 1969	John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson
Clifford Morris Hardin[?]	January 21, 1969 - November 17, 1971	Richard Nixon
Earl Lauer Butz	December 2, 1971 - October 4, 1976	Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford
John Albert Knebel[?]	November 4, 1976 - January 20, 1977	Gerald Ford
Robert Selmer Bergland[?]	January 23, 1977 - January 20, 1981	Jimmy Carter
John Rusling Block[?]	January 23, 1981 - February 14, 1986	Ronald Reagan
Richard Edmund Lyng[?]	March 7, 1986 - January 21, 1989	Ronald Reagan
Clayton Keith Yeutter[?]	February 16, 1989 - March 1, 1991	George H. W. Bush
Edward Rell Madigan[?]	March 12, 1991 - January 20, 1993	George H. W. Bush
A. Michael Espy[?]	January 22, 1993 - December 31, 1994	Bill Clinton
Daniel Robert Glickman[?]	March 30, 1995 - January 19, 2001	Bill Clinton
Ann M. Veneman[?]	January 20, 2001 - present	George W. Bush

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