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unusual facts about United States Secretary of Agriculture


Edward R. Madigan State Fish and Wildlife Area

Founded in 1971 as Railsplitter State Park, it was renamed in 1995 in honor of Edward R. Madigan, a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the town of Lincoln and a U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.


1994 State of the Union Address

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

Dave Butz

He is the nephew of Earl Butz, a former United States Secretary of Agriculture under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford; his uncle held the Cabinet post during Butz's first season in Washington.

Ellis Arnall

Arnall stood behind Henry A. Wallace's efforts to remain Vice President in 1944, when the former United States Secretary of Agriculture was instead replaced by U.S. Senator Harry Truman of Missouri.

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.


see also

John Block

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

Norman Coleman

Norman Jay Coleman (1827 – 1911), United States Secretary of Agriculture under President Grover Cleveland in 1889