Claude R. Wickard
Claude Raymond Wickard was a Democratic politician who served as the Secretary of Agriculture during the administrations of Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman from 1940 to 1945.
Wickard was born on his family farm in Carroll County, Indiana, near Camden, on February 28, 1893. He was born to Iva Lenora and Andrew Jackson Wickard. He graduated from Purdue University in 1915 with a bachelors degree in agriculture, and was chosen as Master Farmer of Indiana in 1927, for his improvements in stock feeding and farming.
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