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 (770,000 km²) 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 D. Roosevelt |
| Claude R. Wickard |
September 5, 1940 - June 29, 1945 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman |
| Clinton Presba Anderson |
June 30, 1945 - May 10, 1948 |
Harry S. Truman |
| Charles F. 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 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 |
| Bob Nash (acting) |
December 31, 1994 - March 29, 1995 |
Bill Clinton |
| Daniel Robert Glickman |
March 30, 1995 - January 19, 2001 |
Bill Clinton |
| Ann Margaret Veneman |
January 20, 2001 - January 20, 2005 |
George W. Bush |
| Mike Johanns |
January 21, 2005 - |
George W. Bush |
