Secretary of Agriculture: Difference between revisions

Secretary of Agriculture is a [[Executive Schedule#Level I|Level I position in the Executive Schedule]],<ref>{{UnitedStatesCode|5|5312"}}</ref> thus earning a salary of [[United States dollar|US$]]221,400, as of January 2021.<ref name="Salary">{{cite web|url= https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries-wages/salary-tables/pdf/2021/EX.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123013351/https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries-wages/salary-tables/pdf/2021/EX.pdf |archive-date=2021-01-23 |url-status=live|title=Salary Table No. 2021-EX Rates of Basic Pay for the Executive Schedule (EX)}}</ref>

==List of secretaries of agriculture==

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!scope="col"|No.

!scope="col"|Name

!scope="col"|State of residence

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! rowspan="2" |1

| rowspan="2" |[[Isaac Newton (agriculturalist)|Isaac Newton]]

| rowspan="2" |[[Pennsylvania]]

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! rowspan="3" |2

| rowspan="3" |[[Horace Capron]]

| rowspan="3" |

|-

!3

|[[Frederick Watts]]

|Pennsylvania

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!4

|[[William Gates LeDuc]]

|[[Minnesota]]

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! rowspan="2" |5

| rowspan="2" |[[George B. Loring]]

| rowspan="2" |[[Massachusetts]]

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!6

|[[Norman Jay Coleman|Norman Jay Colman]]

|[[Missouri]]

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!No.

!Name

!State of residence

|-  

! style="background: {{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |{{color|white|1}}

|[[Norman Jay Coleman|Norman Jay Colman]]

|[[Missouri]]

|-  

! style="background: {{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |{{color|white|2}}

|[[Jeremiah McLain Rusk]]

|[[Wisconsin]]

|-  

! style="background: {{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |{{color|white|3}}

|[[Julius Sterling Morton]]

|[[Nebraska]]

|-  

! rowspan="3" style="background: {{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |{{color|white|4}}

| rowspan="3" |[[James Wilson (Secretary of Agriculture)|James Wilson]]

| rowspan="3" |[[Iowa]]

|-  

! style="background: {{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |{{color|white|5}}

|[[David F. Houston]]

|Missouri

|-  

! style="background: {{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |{{color|white|6}}

|[[Edwin T. Meredith]]

|Iowa

|-  

! rowspan="2" style="background: {{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |{{color|white|7}}

| rowspan="2" |[[Henry Cantwell Wallace]]

| rowspan="2" |Iowa

|-

! style="background: {{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |{{color|white|8}}

|[[Howard Mason Gore]]

|[[West Virginia]]

|-

! style="background: {{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |{{color|white|9}}

|[[William Marion Jardine]]

|[[Kansas]]

|-  

! style="background: {{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |{{color|white|10}}

|[[Arthur M. Hyde]]

|Missouri

|-  

! style="background: {{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |{{color|white|11}}

|[[Henry A. Wallace]]

|Iowa

|-  

! rowspan="2" style="background: {{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |{{color|white|12}}

| rowspan="2" |[[Claude R. Wickard]]

| rowspan="2" |[[Indiana]]

|-  

! style="background: {{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |{{color|white|13}}

|[[Clinton Anderson]]

|[[New Mexico]]

|-  

! style="background: {{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |{{color|white|14}}

|[[Charles F. Brannan]]

|[[Colorado]]

|-  

! style="background: {{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |{{color|white|15}}

|[[Ezra Taft Benson]]

|[[Utah]]

|-  

! rowspan="2" style="background: {{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |{{color|white|16}}

| rowspan="2" |[[Orville Freeman]]

| rowspan="2" |[[Minnesota]]

|-  

! style="background: {{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |{{color|white|17}}

|[[Clifford M. Hardin]]

|Nebraska

|-  

! rowspan="2" style="background: {{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |{{color|white|18}}

| rowspan="2" |[[Earl Butz]]

| rowspan="2" |Indiana

|-  

! style="background: {{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |{{color|white|19}}

|[[John A. Knebel|John Albert Knebel]]

|[[Oklahoma]]

|-  

! style="background: {{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |{{color|white|20}}

|[[Robert Bergland]]

|Minnesota

|-  

! style="background: {{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |{{color|white|21}}

|[[John R. Block|John Rusling Block]]

|[[Illinois]]

|-  

! style="background: {{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |{{color|white|22}}

|[[Richard Lyng|Richard Edmund Lyng]]

|[[California]]

|-  

! style="background: {{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |{{color|white|23}}

|[[Clayton Yeutter]]

|Nebraska

|-  

! style="background: {{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |{{color|white|24}}

|[[Ed Madigan|Edward Rell Madigan]]

|Illinois

|-

! style="background: {{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |{{color|white|25}}

|[[Mike Espy]]

|[[Mississippi]]

|-  

| bgcolor="#E6E6AA" |{{color|black|–}}

| bgcolor="#E6E6AA" |[[Richard Rominger]]<br />{{small|Acting}}

| bgcolor="#E6E6AA" |California

|-  

! style="background: {{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |{{color|white|26}}

|[[Dan Glickman]]

|Kansas

|-  

! style="background: {{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |{{color|white|27}}

|[[Ann Veneman]]

|California

|-  

! style="background: {{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |{{color|white|28}}

|[[Mike Johanns]]

|Nebraska

|-  

| bgcolor="#E6E6AA" |{{color|black|–}}

| bgcolor="#E6E6AA" |[[Charles Franklin Conner|Charles F. Conner]]<br />{{small|Acting}}

| bgcolor="#E6E6AA" |Indiana

|-  

! style="background: {{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |{{color|white|29}}

|[[Ed Schafer]]

|[[North Dakota]]

|-

! style="background: {{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |{{color|white|30}}

|[[Tom Vilsack]]<br>{{small|''1st term''}}

|Iowa

|-

! style="background:#E6E6AA;" |{{color|black|–}}

| bgcolor="#E6E6AA" |[[Michael Scuse]]<br>{{small|Acting}}

| bgcolor="#E6E6AA" |[[Delaware]]

|-

! style="background:#E6E6AA;" |{{color|black|–}}

| bgcolor="#E6E6AA" |[[Mike Young (agriculture official)|Mike Young]]<br>{{small|Acting}}

| bgcolor="#E6E6AA" |[[Washington D.C.]]

|-  

! style="background: {{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |{{color|white|31}}

|[[Sonny Perdue]]

|[[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]

|-

! style="background:#E6E6AA;" |{{color|black|–}}

| bgcolor="#E6E6AA" |[[Kevin Shea (administrator)|Kevin Shea]]<br>{{small|Acting}}

| bgcolor="#E6E6AA" |

|-

! style="background: {{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |{{color|white|32}}

|Tom Vilsack<br>{{small|''2nd term''}}

|Iowa