Edwin T. Meredith

Edwin Thomas Meredith was founder of the Meredith Corporation and was the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture in President Woodrow Wilsons administration.

Meredith was born in Avoca, Iowa on December 23, 1876, to Minerva Jane and Thomas Oliver Meredith. he attended Highland Park College in Des Moines. In 1894, Meredith became the general manager of Farmers Tribune, a Populist newspaper run by his grandfather.

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