# |
Secretary of Agriculture |
State of Residence |
Term of Office |
President(s) served under |
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 6, 1897 - March 5, 1913 |
William McKinley,
Theodore Roosevelt,
William 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 Harding,
Calvin Coolidge |
8 |
Howard M. Gore |
West Virginia |
November 22, 1924 - March 4, 1925 |
Calvin Coolidge |
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 Roosevelt |
12 |
Claude R. Wickard |
Indiana |
September 5, 1940 - June 29, 1945 |
Franklin Roosevelt,
Harry Truman |
13 |
Clinton P. Anderson |
New Mexico |
June 30, 1945 - May 10, 1948 |
Harry Truman |
14 |
Charles F. Brannan |
Colorado |
June 2, 1948 - January 20, 1953 |
15 |
Ezra Taft Benson |
Idaho |
January 21, 1953 - January 20, 1961 |
Dwight Eisenhower |
16 |
Orville L. Freeman |
Minnesota |
January 21, 1961 - January 20, 1969 |
John Kennedy,
Lyndon 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 |
Richard Nixon,
Gerald Ford |
19 |
John A. Knebel |
|
November 4, 1976 - January 20, 1977 |
Gerald Ford |
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 |
|
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 |
Alphonso Michael "Mike" Espy |
Mississippi |
January 22, 1993 - December 31, 1994 |
Bill Clinton |
26 |
Daniel R. Glickman |
Kansas |
March 30, 1995 - January 19, 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 |
Edward T. Schafer |
North Dakota |
January 28, 2008 - present |