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. The Secretary 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 Margaret Veneman	January 20, 2001 - present	George W. Bush