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unusual facts about Secretary of Agriculture

1994 State of the Union Address

Mike Espy, the Secretary of Agriculture, served as the designated survivor.

Miscanthus giganteus

On June 15th, 2011, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and U.S. Senator Roy Blunt announced a pilot program to produce miscanthus in Missouri.

The command structure for the Deseret Test Center, which was organized to oversee Project 112, somewhat bypassed standard Defense Department channels and reported directly to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and US Cabinet consisting of Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State, and to a much smaller extent, the Secretary of Agriculture .

William Jasper Spillman

In 1905 the Office of Farm Management was organized with Spillman as the head, a position he retained until 1918 when a disagreement with the Secretary of Agriculture elicited his resignation.

William M. Roth

See photo of Roth at a 1967, U.S. Chamber of Commerce conference alongside US Secretary of Commerce Alexander B. Trowbridge; Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman, and Under Secretary of Labor James J. Reynolds.

Afro-American Sons and Daughters Hospital

Huddleston's grandson is Mike Espy, a former member of the House of Representatives and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.

California Association of Winegrape Growers

Karen Ross served as President of the California Association of Winegrape Growers from 1996 to 2009, before becoming Chief of Staff to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, and was subsequently appointed as Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture in January, 2011.

Chief Agricultural Negotiator

During negotiation of the Uruguay Round of GATT talks that led ultimately to creation of the World Trade Organization, Charles J. O'Mara, a Senior Foreign Service officer of the Foreign Agricultural Service, was appointed Counsel for International Affairs to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and Special Trade Negotiator for Agriculture.

Corwin Samuel West

Ezra Taft Benson (former Secretary of Agriculture) and Dr. John Nash Ott (John Ott) were both keynote speakers at his graduation ceremony.

Cynthia H. Milligan

Milligan is the daughter of former Secretary of Agriculture, Clifford M. Hardin, and sister of Nancy H. Rogers.

Francis E. Garchitorena

His mother is the sister of Don Mariano Garchitorena, governor of Camarines Sur, secretary of Agriculture and commerce, and Minister to Spain.

Fruit Height Lands Conveyance Act

Under the bill, the Secretary of Agriculture would be required to convey about 100 acres of land within the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest to Fruit Heights City, Utah.

Garchitorena, Camarines Sur

He is the father of Don Mariano Garchitorena, Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce and also Governor of Camarines Sur.

John Block

John Rusling Block (born 1935), United States Secretary of Agriculture 1981–1986

Mike Espy

Espy became Assistant State Attorney General from 1984 to 1985 when he was elected as a Democrat to the 100th Congress in 1986 and then re-elected to three succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1987, until his resignation January 22, 1993, having been appointed Secretary of Agriculture in the Cabinet of President Bill Clinton.

N. D. Fratt

He was then a candidate for Governor of Wisconsin twice, losing both times to future U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Jeremiah McLain Rusk.

National Institute of Food and Agriculture

The Institute was developed as a result of a task force chaired by William Henry Danforth and appointed by then Secretary of Agriculture, Ann M. Veneman.

New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum

The idea for the museum was conceived in the 1970s and the grassroots effort to create the facility was led by William P. Stephens, the former New Mexico Secretary of Agriculture, and Gerald Thomas, the former president of New Mexico State University.