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	Henry A. Wallace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry Agard Wallace (October 7, 1888 – November 18, 1965) was the 33rd Vice President of the United States (1941-45), the 11th Secretary of Agriculture (1933-40), and the 10th Secretary of Commerce (1945-46).
		Wallace was born on a farm near Orient, Adair County, Iowa, and graduated from Iowa State College at Ames in 1910.
		Wallace was elected in November 1940 as Vice President on the Democratic Party ticket with President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_A._Wallace (1150 words)

	Henry Wallace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry Cantwell Wallace (1866–1924), U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, father of Henry A. Wallace
		Henry Wallace (Scottish), former president of Mazda and CFO of Ford
		Henry W. Wallace, inventor of the kinemassic field generator, an alleged anti-gravity device
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Wallace (123 words)

	Henry A. Wallace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry Agard Wallace (October 7, 1888– November 18, 1965) was the 33rd Vice President of the United States (1941-45), the 11th Secretary of Agriculture (1933-40), and the 10th Secretary of Commerce (1945-46).
		Wallace was born on a farm near Orient, Adair County, Iowa, and graduated from Iowa State College at Ames in 1910, where he was a brother of Delta Tau Delta.
		Wallace was elected in November 1940 as Vice President on the Democratic Party ticket with President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_A._Wallace (1515 words)

	Henry A. Wallace, TITLE
		Wallace was born on an Iowa farm in 1888.
		Wallace was not popular, however, among the leadership of the Democratic party, who argued that he was too idealistic to be a good politician, that he did not have a wide following, and that he was in essence too much like Roosevelt to balance the ticket.
		Furthermore, Wallace's obvious concern for the plight of the less fortunate in urban industrial America marked him as a true Rooseveltian liberal and by the close of the decade there was considerable speculation that Wallace might prove a worthy Presidential candidate.
	newdeal.feri.org /wallace/essay.htm (1164 words)

	UIowa - Papers of Henry Wallace
		Henry Wallace was born in 1836 on a farm in Pennsylvania.
		Having contracted tuberculosis, Wallace (or Uncle Henry, as he was commonly known) retired from the ministry and began farming full-time in Winterset.
		Despite the success of Wallaces' Farmer, Henry Wallace is probably best known as the father of Henry Cantwell Wallace (Secretary of Agriculture under President Warren G. Harding) and as the grandfather of Vice-President Henry A. Wallace (who also served as Secretary of Agriculture under President Franklin D. Roosevelt).
	www.lib.uiowa.edu /spec-coll/Msc/ToMsc200/MsC180/MsC180.htm (668 words)

	DesMoinesRegister.com Famous Iowans
		Henry Cantwell Wallace loved the land and was a champion of agriculture, seeking economic equality for the farmer.
		Wallace, who was called Harry to distinguish him from his illustrious father and namesake, was born in Rock Island, Ill. He became an Iowan when his parents, Henry and Nancy Cantwell Wallace, moved to Winterset to be near land they had purchased in Adair County.
		His son, Henry Agard Wallace, continued his father's legacy, also serving the nation as a secretary of agriculture and later as vice president.
	desmoinesregister.com /extras/iowans/wallacehc.html (328 words)

	Henry Wallace
		Henry Agard Wallace was born on October 7, 1888 in Orient, Iowa, son of Henry Cantwell and May (Brodhead) Wallace.
		Bulk of Henry A. Wallace’s papers are held by the University of Iowa.
		Photographs of Wallace, his family, Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt, and publicity shots taken during the time Wallace was in Washington, DC.
	www.lib.iastate.edu /arch/rgrp/21-7-5.html (662 words)

	Arthur Schlesinger Jr. / Who Was Henry A. Wallace?
		His grandfather, the first Henry Wallace, began as a minister and ended as an editor, founding Wallace's Farmer, a journal dedicated to the cause of scientific agriculture and to defense of the farmer's role in the national economy.
		Henry Agard Wallace came from an eminent family in the Farm Belt, a family of editors rather than of dirt farmers.
		Wallace began as vice president by removing the well-stocked bar and the well-used urinal his predecessor, John N. Garner, had installed in the vice presidential office in the Capitol.
	www.cooperativeindividualism.org /schlesinger_wallace_bio.html (1852 words)

	Henry A. Wallace - Biography
		Henry A. Wallace was to become an important part of Roosevelt's New Deal administration not just because of his expertise in agriculture, but also because of his ability to articulate to goals and philosophies of the New Deal.
		Henry Wallace did not discover hybrid corn, but more than any other person he was responsible for extending its use in the United States, with all the resultant increases in yields and in agricultural productivity.
		As Franklin Delano Roosevelt's second vice president, Henry A. Wallace became the first vice president in American history to be actively involved in the work of the executive branch, and consequently he became the prototype of the modern vice president.
	www.winrock.org /wallacecenter/wallace/bio.html (7698 words)

	Henry A. Wallace Foundation
		Henry A. Wallace was the developer of commercial hybrid seed corn in 1926, editor of Wallaces Farmer magazine from 1921-33, USDA secretary from 1933-40, and U.S. Vice President from 1941-1945.
		Wallace was born in the house, and his family lived their until 1890.
		Henry A's grandfather owned the house and this was one of his tenant farms.
	www.orientiowa.com /wallace.htm (503 words)

	Commemorative Chairs: Henry A. Wallace
		Henry Wallace, champion of the American farmer and vanguard of post-war liberalism, was one of President Roosevelt’s right-hand men from the early days of the New Deal to the end of the Second World War.
		Wallace was convinced that he and FDR saw eye-to-eye on several issues, including Wallace’s belief that the ripple effects of farm prosperity could pull the country out of the Depression.
		Wallace appeared to be his designated successor, and during the convention he would receive much support from the rank and file Democrats.
	www.feri.org /kiosk/profile.cfm?QID=2270 (791 words)

	Arthur Schlesinger Jr. / Who Was Henry A. Wallace?
		His grandfather, the first Henry Wallace, began as a minister and ended as an editor, founding Wallace's Farmer, a journal dedicated to the cause of scientific agriculture and to defense of the farmer's role in the national economy.
		Henry Agard Wallace came from an eminent family in the Farm Belt, a family of editors rather than of dirt farmers.
		Wallace began as vice president by removing the well-stocked bar and the well-used urinal his predecessor, John N. Garner, had installed in the vice presidential office in the Capitol.
	www.cooperativeindividualism.org /schlesinger_wallace_bio.html (1852 words)

	Henry A. Wallace, TITLE
		Wallace was born on an Iowa farm in 1888.
		Wallace was not popular, however, among the leadership of the Democratic party, who argued that he was too idealistic to be a good politician, that he did not have a wide following, and that he was in essence too much like Roosevelt to balance the ticket.
		Furthermore, Wallace's obvious concern for the plight of the less fortunate in urban industrial America marked him as a true Rooseveltian liberal and by the close of the decade there was considerable speculation that Wallace might prove a worthy Presidential candidate.
	newdeal.feri.org /wallace/essay.htm (1164 words)

	HENRY AGARD WALLACE
		Henry Cantwell Wallace (1866-1924) was the father of Henry Agard.
		Under the editorship of Henry Wallace (until his death in 1916) and Henry Cantwell Wallace (1916-1924) this became one of the leading farm journals in the United States.
		In 1948 Wallace became presidential candidate of the Progressive Party, a newly organized third party with a pro-Soviet platform attacking the Marshall Plan and calling for disarmament Although polling a popular vote of over a million, Wallace and the vice-presidential candidate, Senator Glen H. Taylor of Idaho, failed to carry any state.
	angl.by.ru /presidents/vice/wallace.htm (567 words)

	Henry Agard Wallace
		Henry Agard Wallace took over as publisher of the family journal when his father went to Washington, continuing in that role until he himself moved to Washington as secretary of agriculture in 1933.
		Henry Wallace will be remembered as an unusual vice president because of the circumstances of his rise and fall from power and because of his unprecedented executive responsibilities.
		Prefaced by the stormy Democratic nominating convention of 1940, the vice-presidency of Henry A. Wallace concluded with the equally tempestuous 1944 convention.
	www.corvalliscommunitypages.com /Americas/US/USNotOregon/henrywallaceleft.htm (4982 words)

	Arthur Schlesinger Jr. / Who Was Henry A. Wallace?
		His grandfather, the first Henry Wallace, began as a minister and ended as an editor, founding Wallace's Farmer, a journal dedicated to the cause of scientific agriculture and to defense of the farmer's role in the national economy.
		Henry Agard Wallace came from an eminent family in the Farm Belt, a family of editors rather than of dirt farmers.
		Wallace began as vice president by removing the well-stocked bar and the well-used urinal his predecessor, John N. Garner, had installed in the vice presidential office in the Capitol.
	www.cooperativeindividualism.org /schlesinger_wallace_bio.html (1852 words)

	Henry Wallace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry W. Wallace, inventor of the Kinemassic Field Generator, an alleged anti-gravity device
		Henry Agard Wallace, the 33rd Vice President of the United States
		Henry Cantwell Wallace, US Secretary of Agriculture 1921-1924
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Wallace (97 words)

	US Vice - Presidents - Henry Wallace
		Henry Wallace was certainly an intelligent man and probably contributed much to American agriculture, but for a man that wanted to do so much to change the way the government is operated he lacked basic political skills.
		Henry Wallace was the first Vice President to be personally chosen by the President and not part of a compromise to satisfy convention delegates.
		The Wallace family had always been Republicans but Henry Wallace, disillusioned by his father’s treatment, campaigned for Al Smith in 1928 and Franklin Roosevelt in 1932.
	www.juntosociety.com /vp/hwallace.html (2214 words)

	Henry Cantwell Wallace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry Cantwell Wallace (1866–1924) was a United States administrator.
		He was the father of Henry Agard Wallace.
		He served as the Secretary of Agriculture between 1921 and 1924.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Cantwell_Wallace (70 words)

	Henry A. Wallace
		Henry Agard Wallace 1888-1965) served as vice president of the United States from 1941 to 1945 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
		Wallace was not renominated for the vice presidency in 1944 because many Democrats did not like his social idealism and internationalism.
		Wallace was one of the most controversial figures of the New Deal and Fair Deal periods.
	www.worldbook.com /wc/features/presidents/html/wallace.htm (301 words)

	Henry A. Wallace - Primary Bibliography
		Henry A. Wallace's Irrigation Frontier: On the Trail of the Corn Belt Farmer, 1909.
		The Wallace papers : an index to the microfilm editions of the Henry A. Wallace papers in the University of Iowa Libraries, the Library of Congress, and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library.
		The Henry Agard Wallace collection at the Library of Congress Manuscript Division: Papers, 1934-1945.
	www.winrock.org /wallacecenter/wallace/pribib.html (670 words)

	Henry Wallace
		Wallace's Madison Square Garden speech was magnified in the minds of the representatives of foreign governments by newspaper reports quoting President Truman as saying at a press conference that he approved the Wallace speech in its entirety.
		Wallace's left-wing views made him increasingly unpopular in the Democratic Party and Roosevelt came under pressure to drop him as his vice-president in 1944.
		Wallace should be asked to refrain from criticizing the foreign policy of the United States while he is a member of your Cabinet, I must ask you to accept my resignation immediately.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USARwallace.htm (2780 words)

	Wallace I
		There was a part of Henry Wallace that Franklin Roosevelt recognized but never criticized, Some of his less sympathetic associates worried about what they considered Wallace’s mysticism, a quality they considered disturbing and unpredictable in its consequences.
		Wallace feared that federal assistance for the synthetic rubber industry, which he knew was essential for wartime supply, would lead to postwar tariff protection for that industry, and consequently inhibit postwar natural rubber developments which BEW was nurturing in Brazil and elsewhere.
		Wallace’s path into and out of the vice-presidency began in the Middle Border, in the Iowa of the late nineteenth century, where the determining roots of his being grew out of his family, the soil it nurtured, and the culture it both shaped and absorbed.
	www.mnemeion.studien-von-zeitfragen.net /PORTRA_1/portra_1.HTM (10101 words)

	Articles - Henry A. Wallace
		Wallace was born on a farm near Orient, Adair County, Iowa, and graduated from Iowa State College at Ames in 1910.
		Wallace served in this post from March 1945 to September 1946, when he was fired by Harry S. Truman, who had become president upon Roosevelt's death midterm, and who regarded Wallace as too critical of Truman's foreign policy.
		Wallace was elected in November 1940 as Vice President on the Democratic Party ticket with President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
	www.gaple.com /articles/Henry_Agard_Wallace (1156 words)

	Le Mars Daily Sentinel: Story: Wallaces benefited agricultural history
		Henry C. Wallace came to the nation's Capitol on his nomination by Harding in 1921, just as the farm depression was beginning.
		Henry A. Wallace had left the Republican Party of his father and grandfather to support the 1932 campaign of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
		Henry C. Wallace was born in Illinois, but moved with his parents to Winterset in Iowa's Adair County.
	www.lemarssentinel.com /story/1087845.html (558 words)

	Progressive Farmer: Turning the Century: Henry A. Wallace
		His father, Henry Cantwell Wallace, was a dairy professor who also took up farming and editing the magazine before serving as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge.
		When Wallace was 15, he and his father got into a discussion with P.G. Holden, the famed "corn evangelist." Holden was the leading proponent of the popular socalled corn shows, where judges ranked the quality of the crop on the basis of the appearance of the ear.
		Wallace pushed the idea of hybrids in his magazine and his speeches, and by encouraging the growing number of researchers and farmers conducting their own experiments.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3832/is_200003/ai_n8885619 (1145 words)

	MSN Encarta - Henry Wallace
		The son of Henry Cantwell Wallace, he was born in Adair County, Iowa, on October 7, 1888, and educated at Iowa State Agricultural College.
		Wallace served as Roosevelt's secretary of agriculture from 1933 to 1940.
		Wallace served as vice president during Roosevelt's third term, then as secretary of commerce (1945-46) in the cabinets of Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572521/Wallace_Henry_Agard.html (334 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Faith of Henry Wallace
		...Henry A. Wallace came on the scene to uphold the populist tradition in its period of crisis and decline...
		...III HENRY WALLACE is, I have suggested, the supreme political expression of populism in contemporary American life...
		Bazelon, David T. WALLACE is the "uncommon man" whom many liberals propose as leader of the well-known Common Man, whose century is supposed to be the present one.
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V3I4P15-1.htm (6975 words)

	Henry A. Wallace Country Life Center
		Henry A. Wallace was named the "Most Influential Iowan of the 20th Century" by the Des Moines Register in December, 1999.
		Dedicated in 1996, the Henry A. Wallace Country Life Center is the birthplace farmstead of Henry A. Wallace.
		The Prairie Harvest CSA garden at the Henry A. Wallace Country Life Center is organically certified, the only one in Southwest Iowa.
	www.henryawallacecenter.com (235 words)

	US Vice - Presidents - Henry Wallace
		Henry Wallace was certainly an intelligent man and probably contributed much to American agriculture, but for a man that wanted to do so much to change the way the government is operated he lacked basic political skills.
		Henry Wallace was the first Vice President to be personally chosen by the President and not part of a compromise to satisfy convention delegates.
		The Wallace family had always been Republicans but Henry Wallace, disillusioned by his father’s treatment, campaigned for Al Smith in 1928 and Franklin Roosevelt in 1932.
	www.juntosociety.com /vp/hwallace.html (2214 words)

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