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Henry Agard Wallace was the 33rd vice president of the United States, serving from 1941 to 1945, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He served as the 11th U.S. secretary of agriculture and the 10th U.S. secretary of commerce. He was the nominee of the new Progressive Party in the 1948 presidential election.
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culture · Vice President of the United States from 1941 to 1945 · politician · writer · horticulturist · also Henry A. Wallace, Henry Wallace, Vice President Wallace, Vice President Henry Wallace, Henry Agard Wallace, Wallace
Born 7 October 1888 · Died 18 November 1965 · Q251666
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at no time in our history have so many tens of millions of people been so completely enthusiastic about an inaugural address as about yours
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“Unless this bi-partisan foreign policy of high prices and war is promptly reversed, I predict that the Progressive Party will rapidly grow into the dominant party. ... To save the peace of the world the Progressive Party is more needed than ever before”
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Wallace's three children sold their shares in Pioneer Hi-Bred to DuPont for well over $1 billion
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Died 1965-11-18.
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Wallace and Ilo remained married until his death in 1965; she lived until 1981.
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Delivered a speech commemorating the centennial of the establishment of the Department of Agriculture
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“at no time in our history have so many tens of millions of people been so completely enthusiastic about an inaugural address as about yours”
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“We lost Cuba in 1959 not only because of Castro but also because we failed to understand the needs of the farmer in the back country of Cuba from 1920 onward. ... The common man is on the march, but it is up to the uncommon men of education and insight to lead that march constructively”
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Not only because of Castro but also because we failed to understand the needs of the farmer in the back country of Cuba from 1920 onward
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Published an article, "Where I Was Wrong", in which he repudiated his earlier foreign policy positions and declared the Soviet Union to be "utterly evil"
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Wallace appeared before Congress to deny accusations that in 1944 he had encouraged a coalition between Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Communists
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Over the Korean War, and in a 1952 article he called the Soviet Union "utterly evil"
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Election lost: 1948 presidential election.
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Campaign: 1948 presidential election.
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“the more definitely the world will know that the United States is not behind the bipartisan reactionary war policy which is dividing the world into two armed camps and making inevitable the day when American soldiers will be lying in their Arctic suits in the Russian snow.”
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Wallace launched a third-party campaign, declaring, "we have assembled a Gideon's Army, small in number, powerful in conviction
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“Opis: we wrześniu 1946, w reakcji na wezwanie przez Wallace’a do „pokojowej rywalizacji” ze Związkiem Radzieckim.”
Wallace wrote Soviet Asian Mission, a book about his 1944 trip to the Soviet Union
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Wallace swore in Truman as his vice-presidential successor
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Wallace and his wife purchased a 115-acre farm near South Salem, New York, known as Farvue
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Career landmark: United States Secretary of Commerce (1945–1946).
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Roosevelt fired Jones and made Wallace Secretary of Commerce
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"there might have been no atomic bombings, no nuclear arms race, and no Cold War"
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“The vast expanses of your country, her virgin forests, wide rivers and large lakes, all kinds of climate - from tropical to polar - her inexhaustible wealth, [all] remind me of my homeland . . . Both the Russians and the Americans, in their different ways, are groping for a way of life that will enable the common man everywhere in the world to get the most good out of modern technology. There is nothing irreconcilable in our aims and purposes.”
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Roosevelt stripped both men of their roles in the matter
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Roosevelt explicitly wrote to all his department heads that disagreements "should not be publicly aired, but are to be submitted to me by the appropriate heads of the conflicting agencies
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Wallace delivered what became his best-remembered speech, known for containing the phrase "the Century of the Common Man"
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Inspired Aaron Copland to compose Fanfare for the Common Man
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Career landmark: Vice President of the United States (1941–1945).
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As the Supreme Court says it is, half of the people of the United States would quickly starve
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(the Committee on Economic Security, chaired by Labor Secretary Frances Perkins), and the interagency committee that designed the Civilian Conservation Corps, which created millions of public jobs in natural resource con
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Wallace fired general counsel Jerome Frank and some other Agriculture Department officials who sought to help Southern sharecroppers by issuing a reinterpretation of the Agricultural Adjustment Act
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Career landmark: United States Secretary of Agriculture (1933–1940).
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During the Great Depression, and Wallace stopped serving as editor in 1933
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And joined the Episcopal Church, but he continued to be interested in various mystic groups and individuals
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And 1928, but Coolidge vetoed the bill both times
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Co-founded the Hi-Bred Corn Company to develop and produce hybrid corn
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Helped organize the Des Moines parish of the Liberal Catholic Church
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Wallace drifted away from the Republican Party; he supported Democratic nominee Franklin D
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Reached the first-ever contract for hybrid seed production, agreeing to grant the Iowa Seed Company the sole right to grow and sell Copper Cross corn
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The elder Wallace stayed on as Agriculture Secretary but died at age 58 in October 1924
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Wallace assumed leadership of the paper after his father accepted an appointment as Secretary of Agriculture under President Warren G
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Wallace and his father became the coeditors of Wallace's Farmer
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Left the Presbyterian Church and became increasingly interested in mysticism
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Wallace and his wife, Ilo Browne, purchased a farm near Johnston, Iowa; they initially attempted to combine corn production with dairy farming, but later turned their full attention to corn
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Wallace and Browne married on May 20, 1914, and had three children.
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Wallace met Ilo Browne, the daughter of a successful businessman from Indianola, Iowa
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Worked as a writer and editor for his family's farm journal, Wallaces' Farmer
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And enrolled in Iowa State College later that year, majoring in animal husbandry
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Devised an experiment that disproved agronomist Perry Greeley Holden's assertion that the most aesthetically pleasing corn would produce the greatest yield
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The Wallaces established an agricultural newspaper, Wallaces Farmer
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On a farm near Orient, Iowa, to Henry Cantwell Wallace and Carrie May Brodhead
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Born 1888-10-07.
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We lost Cuba in 1959 not only because of Castro but also because we failed to understand the needs of the farmer in the back country of Cuba from 1920 onward. ... The common man is on the march, but it is up to the uncommon men of education and insight to lead that march constructively
the more definitely the world will know that the United States is not behind the bipartisan reactionary war policy which is dividing the world into two armed camps and making inevitable the day when American soldiers will be lying in their Arctic suits in the Russian snow.
The vast expanses of your country, her virgin forests, wide rivers and large lakes, all kinds of climate - from tropical to polar - her inexhaustible wealth, [all] remind me of my homeland . . . Both the Russians and the Americans, in their different ways, are groping for a way of life that will enable the common man everywhere in the world to get the most good out of modern technology. There is nothing irreconcilable in our aims and purposes.
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