Claude R. Wickard
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Claude Raymond Wickard (1893-1967), born in Indiana, Secretary of Agriculture under President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1940 to 1945. Graduated from Purdue University in 1915, with a bachelor's degree in agriculture. Elected to Indiana State Senate in 1932, served as a Food Administrator for four months in 1942. Resigned in 1945 to become administrator for the Rural Electrification Administration, until 1953. Wickard died in 1967.
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| Preceded by Henry Agard Wallace |
United States Secretary of Agriculture 1940–1945 |
Succeeded by Clinton Presba Anderson |
| United States Secretaries of Agriculture |  |
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| Colman • 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 • Johanns |
