WALLACE, Henry Agard, a
Vice President of the United States; born on a farm near Orient, Adair County,
Iowa, October 7, 1888; attended the public schools; graduated from Iowa State
College at Ames in 1910; served on the editorial staff of Wallace’s Farmer,
Des Moines, Iowa, 1910-1924 and was editor 1924-1929; experimented with breeding
high-yielding strains of corn 1913-1933; in 1915 devised the first corn-hog
ratio charts indicating probable course of markets; author of many publications
on agriculture; appointed Secretary of Agriculture in the Cabinet of President
Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 and served until September 1940, when he resigned,
having been nominated for Vice President; elected in November 1940 as Vice
President of the United States on the Democratic ticket with President Franklin
D. Roosevelt and was inaugurated January 20, 1941, for the term ending January
20, 1945; was not a candidate for reelection in 1944; appointed Secretary of
Commerce and served from March 1945 to September 1946; unsuccessful Progressive
candidate for election as President of the United States in 1948; resumed his
farming interests; was a resident of South Salem, N.Y.; died in Danbury, Conn.,
November 18, 1965; remains were cremated at Grace Cemetery in Bridgeport, Conn.,
and the ashes interred in Glendale Cemetery, Des Moines, Iowa. -- Biographical
Data courtesy of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
