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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.
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 Henry A. Wallace - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Henry Agard Wallace (October 7, 1888–November 18, 1965) was the 33rd Vice President of the United States.
Wallace was elected in November 1940 as Vice President on the Democratic ticket with President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and was inaugurated January 20, 1941, for the term ending January 20, 1945.
Wallace was bumped from the Democratic ticket in 1944, largely due to party concerns over FDR's failing health, Wallace's perceived communist beliefs, as well as his unorthodox New Age tendencies.
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 Arthur Schlesinger Jr. / Who Was Henry A. Wallace?
Henry Agard Wallace came from an eminent family in the Farm Belt, a family of editors rather than of dirt farmers.
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.
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.
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 Henry A. Wallace -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Henry Agard Wallace (October 7, 1888 – November 18, 1965) served as the 33rd (Click link for more info and facts about Vice President of the United States) Vice President of the United States.
Wallace was born on a farm near (The hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia) Orient, (Click link for more info and facts about Adair County, Iowa) Adair County, Iowa, and graduated from Iowa State College at (Click link for more info and facts about Ames) Ames in 1910.
Wallace resumed his farming interests, and resided in South Salem, (A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies) New York.
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 U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Henry Agard Wallace, 33rd Vice President (1941-1945)
Prefaced by the stormy Democratic nominating convention of 1940, the vice-presidency of Henry A. Wallace concluded with the equally tempestuous 1944 convention.
Henry A. Wallace was born on October 7, 1888, near the town of Orient, Iowa, an oddly appropriate location for someone who would become so fascinated with oriental philosophy.
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.
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 HENRY AGARD WALLACE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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.
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.
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 Henry A. Wallace, TITLE
Wallace was born on an Iowa farm in 1888.
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.
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.
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 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.
Wallace's diary traces his fight to gain greater autonomy for the BEW and his many clashes with cabinet officers like Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones.
Wallace's assertion of his authority to purchase material vital to the war effort spawned conspicuous political battles.
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 Henry Agard Wallace 1888-1965   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Wallace was educated at Iowa State College and took over his father's position as editor of Wallaces' Farmer when his father became secretary of agriculture in 1921.
Wallace distinguished himself as a loyal, hard-working wartime vice-president over the next four years, but still failed to recapture the nomination in 1944 when he was dumped by an increasingly conservative Democratic party.
Wallace would ultimately reach a rapprochement with the Truman administration's foreign policy when he endorsed its firm stance in Korea, but shortly thereafter Wallace retired from political life and the Progressive party when it rebuked him for having voiced assent to the war.
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 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.
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 Brother Henry Agard Wallace, 32°, Prophet Of Agrarianism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Henry Agard Wallace was an outstanding Freemason who served as Secretary of Agriculture, Vice-President, and Secretary of Commerce under his Masonic Brother President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Wallace was initiated as an Entered Apprentice on 20 September 1927, passed to the Degree of Fellowcraft on 27 September 1927, and raised to the Sublime Degree of Master Mason on 4 October 1927 in Capital Lodge No. 110 in Des Moines, Iowa.
Wallace's funeral was held on Saturday 20 November 1965 at Saint Stephen's Episcopal Church in Ridgefield, Connecticut, a community across the state line not far from South Salem.
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 Henry Wallace
Henry Agard Wallace was born in Adair Coun
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'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.
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 Henry Wallace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Henry Agard Wallace, the 33rd Vice President of the United States
Henry W. Wallace, inventor of the Kinemassic Field Generator, an alleged anti-gravity device
Henry Wallace, Former president of Mazda and CFO of Ford
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 Henry Wallace Would Never Have Dropped the Bomb on Japan
To underscore why Wallace was ousted in 1944, and what was the character of those forces intervening in the United States to prevent a post-war FDR development perspective from prevailing, it is useful to review the commitment and record of Henry A. Wallace in carrying out FDR's efforts.
Henry Wallace himself was editor of the weekly starting in 1921, when his father, also named Henry Wallace, left Iowa to go to Washington, D.C. to serve as Agriculture Secretary in the Harding Adminstration.
Wallace wrote: "The Preamble of the New Constitution began with words never before used officially in America: 'We the people of the United States.' The new government was to be a national union of people, and not a union of sovereign and independent States.
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 Wallace, Henry Agard on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He was (1910-24) associate editor of Wallaces' Farmer, an influential agricultural periodical run by his family, and when his father, Henry Cantwell Wallace, died in 1924, he became editor.
Henry A. Wallace had developed several strains of hybrid corn that were to be used extensively by farmers of the American Corn Belt, and his writings on farm economics and plant genetics quickly won him recognition as an agrarian authority.
In 1933 he was appointed secretary of agriculture by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and soon led in the reorganization of the Dept. of Agriculture and in the supervision of the Agricultural Adjustment Agency.
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 Henry A. Wallace - Primary Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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.
New Frontiers is Wallace's vision of the values, skills, and programs needed for America to settle the "New Frontier," a land of growth, abundance, and a deep and abiding respect for the land and human rights.
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 Henry A. Wallace - Wikpedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Henry Agard Wallace (October 7, 1888 – November 18, 1965) was the 33rd Vice President of the United States.
Wallace was bumped from the Democratic ticket in 1944, largely due to party concerns over FDR's failing health, Wallace's alleged "communist" beliefs, as well as his unorthodox New Age tendencies.
Harry S. Truman placated Wallace by appointing him Secretary of Commerce, where Wallace served from March 1945 to September 1946, when he was replaced by W.
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 Wallace, Henry Agard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Henry A. Wallace - Encyclopedia Americana - In 1940 Wallace was elected vice president and served in this capacity during Franklin Delano Roosevelt's third term in office.
Henry Wallace - Background on Wallace's decision to resign as Harry Truman's Commerce Secretary.
Henry Wallace: A Divided Mind - 48.08 - Contemporary article by Gardner Jackson of the Atlantic on Henry Wallace's 1948 New Party campaign for President of the United States.
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 Henry A. Wallace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Henry Agard Wallace (October 7, 1888 – November 18, 1965) served as the 33rd Vice President of the United States.
The Democratic Party bumped Wallace from its ticket in 1944, largely due to party concerns over FDR's failing health and thus the likelihood of his running-mate succeeding him, over Wallace's alleged "communist" beliefs and perceived closeness to the Soviet Union, as well as over his unorthodox New Age tendencies.
His campaign was unusual for his time in that it included African American candidates campaigning alongside white candidates in the American South, however, the party's opposition to Truman's hard-line stance against the Soviets brought it into disrepute and its members largely rejoined the Democrats.
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 Henry Wallace
Bulk of Henry A. Wallace’s papers are held by the University of Iowa.
Henry Agard Wallace was born on October 7, 1888 in Orient, Iowa, son of Henry Cantwell and May (Brodhead) Wallace.
Wallace attended Iowa State College, graduating in 1910, when he joined the family journal as an associate editor.
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 Henry A. Wallace --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Wallace, Henry A. 33rd vice president of the United States (1941–45) in the Democratic administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who epitomized the “common man” philosophy of the New Deal Democratic Party.
His running mate, chosen by party leaders who disliked former vice president Henry A. Wallace for his extreme liberalism, was Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri, a party Democrat who had distinguished himself by...
Most conspicuous were Henry Wallace, who had the support of the radical wing of the Democratic party, and James Byrnes, who represented the conservative wing.
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 MSN Encarta - Further Reading - Wallace, Henry Agard
Henry A. Wallace of Iowa and Prophet in Politics.
Two serious studies on Wallace in agriculture (1910-1940) and politics (1940-1965).
Henry A. Wallace: His Search for a New World Order.
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 Henry Agard Wallace --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
First as secretary of agriculture (1933–40) and then as vice-president (1941–45), Henry Agard Wallace played a substantial role in the Democratic administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Wallace was an ardent supporter of New Deal programs and tried to help farmers with groundbreaking—though often controversial—legislation.
Wallace, George C. Democratic Party politician and four-time governor of Alabama who led the South's fight against federally ordered racial integration in the 1960s.
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 History Channel - Speeches - Henry Agard Wallace, Progressive party candidate: Campaigns for presidency
Henry Agard Wallace, the son of U.S. farming leader Henry Cantwell Wallace, was appointed secretary of agriculture by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933.
In 1948, Wallace helped launch the second incarnation of the Progressive party, and as its presidential candidate that year he sharply criticized Truman for failing to prevent the Cold War.
On April 28, 1948, in a major campaign speech, he was heard criticizing the military-industrial complex and a right-wing bias in the nation's press.
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 VICE PRESIDENT HENRY AGARD WALLACE - PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED
HENRY A. Only Vice President to serve in the same President's Cabinet before and after his VP term.
In 1933, Henry A. Wallace was appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as Secretary of Agriculture, the same cabinet post held by his father, Henry C. Wallace, under Presidents Harding and Coolidge.
Wallace was the 1948 Progressive Party candidate for President, winning 1.2 million votes (no electoral votes) of the 49 million cast.
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