The United States Secretary of Agriculture is the head of the United States Department of Agriculture concerned with land and food as well as agriculture and rural development . The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet .
United States Forest Service . The safety of food produced and sold here is ensured by the United States Food Safety and Inspection Service . Advice for farmers and gardeners is provided by the United States Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service .
Secretaries of Agriculture Name Term of Office President(s) served under Norman Jay Coleman February 15 , 1889 - March 6 , 1889 Grover Cleveland Jeremiah McLain Rusk March 6 , 1889 - March 6 , 1893 Benjamin Harrison Julius Sterling Morton March 7 , 1893 - March 5 , 1897 Grover Cleveland James Wilson March 6 , 1897 - March 5 , 1913 William McKinley , Theodore Roosevelt ,William Howard Taft David Franklin Houston March 6 , 1913 - February 2 , 1920 Woodrow Wilson Edwin Thomas Meredith February 2 , 1920 - March 4 , 1921 Woodrow Wilson Henry Cantwell Wallace March 5 , 1921 - October 25 , 1924 Warren G. Harding , Calvin Coolidge Howard Mason Gore November 22 , 1924 - March 4 , 1925 Calvin Coolidge William Marion Jardine March 5 , 1925 - March 4 , 1929 Calvin Coolidge Arthur Mastick Hyde March 6 , 1929 - March 4 , 1933 Herbert Hoover Henry Agard Wallace March 4 , 1933 - September 4 , 1940 Franklin Delano Roosevelt Claude Raymond Wickard September 5 , 1940 - June 29 , 1945 Franklin Delano Roosevelt , Harry S. Truman Clinton Presba Anderson June 30 , 1945 - May 10 , 1948 Harry S. Truman Charles Franklin Brannan June 2 , 1948 - January 20 , 1953 Harry S. Truman Ezra Taft Benson January 21 , 1953 - January 20 , 1961 Dwight D. Eisenhower Orville Lothrop Freeman January 21 , 1961 - January 20 , 1969 John F. Kennedy , Lyndon Johnson Clifford Morris Hardin January 21 , 1969 - November 17 , 1971 Richard Nixon Earl Lauer Butz December 2 , 1971 - October 4 , 1976 Richard Nixon , Gerald Ford John Albert Knebel November 4 , 1976 - January 20 , 1977 Gerald Ford Robert Bergland January 23 , 1977 - January 20 , 1981 Jimmy Carter John Rusling Block January 23 , 1981 - February 14 , 1986 Ronald Reagan Richard Edmund Lyng March 7 , 1986 - January 21 , 1989 Ronald Reagan Clayton Keith Yeutter February 16 , 1989 - March 1 , 1991 George H. W. Bush Edward Rell Madigan March 12 , 1991 - January 20 , 1993 George H. W. Bush A. Michael Espy January 22 , 1993 - December 31 , 1994 Bill Clinton Bob Nash (acting) December 31 , 1994 - March 29 , 1995 Bill Clinton Daniel Robert Glickman March 30 , 1995 - January 19 , 2001 Bill Clinton Ann Margaret Veneman January 20 , 2001 - January 20 , 2005 George W. Bush Mike Johanns January 21 , 2005 -George W. Bush
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