United States Secretary of Agriculture
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Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The United States secretary of agriculture is the head of the United States Department of Agriculture. The position carries similar responsibilities to those of agriculture ministers in other governments.
The department includes several organizations. The 297,000 mi2 (770,000 km2) of national forests and grasslands are managed by the United States Forest Service.[1] The safety of food produced and sold in the United States is ensured by the United States Food Safety and Inspection Service.[2] The Food Stamp Program works with the states to provide food to low-income people.[3]
Secretary of Agriculture is a Level I position in the Executive Schedule,[4] thus earning a salary of US$221,400, as of January 2021.[5]
Since February 13, 2025, the current secretary is Brooke Rollins.
List of secretaries of agriculture
When the Department of Agriculture was established in 1862, its executive was a non-Cabinet position called the commissioner of agriculture. The commissioners of agriculture were:[6]
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| No. | Portrait | Name | State of residence | Took office | Left office | President(s) | |
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| 1 | Newton seated | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Pennsylvania | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1861–1865) |
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The position of secretary of agriculture was created when the department was elevated to Cabinet status in 1889. The following is a list of secretaries of agriculture, since the creation of the office in 1889.[7]
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| No. | Portrait | Name | State of residence | Took office | Left office | President(s) | |
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| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />10 | File:Arthur M. Hyde, 10th Secretary of Agriculture, March 1929 - March 1933. - Flickr - USDAgov.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Missouri | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1929–1933) |
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| rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />12 | File:Claude R. Wickard, 12th Secretary of Agriculture, September 1940 - June 1945. - Flickr - USDAgov.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Indiana | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
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| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />13 | File:Clinton P. Anderson, 13th Secretary of Agriculture, June 1945 - May 1948. - Flickr - USDAgov.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | New Mexico | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1945–1953) | |
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />14 | File:Charles F. Brannan.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Colorado | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />15 | File:Ezra Taft Benson - USDA portrait.gif | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Utah | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1953–1961) |
| rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />16 | File:Orville L. Freeman, Secretary of Agriculture (1961-1969).jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Minnesota | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1961–1963) |
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| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />17 | File:Clifford Morris Hardin - USDA portrait.png | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Nebraska | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1969–1974) |
| rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />18 | File:Earl Lauer Butz - USDA portrait.png | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Indiana | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
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| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />19 | File:John Albert Knebel - USDA portrait.png | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Oklahoma | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
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| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />21 | File:John Block.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Illinois | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1981–1989) |
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />22 | File:Richard E. Lyng, 22nd Secretary of Agriculture, March 1986 - January 1989. - Flickr - USDAgov.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | California | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />23 | File:Clayton Yeutter, 23rd Secretary of Agriculture, February 1989 - March 1991..jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Nebraska | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1989–1993) |
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />24 | File:Edward R. Madigan (cropped).jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Illinois | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
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Line of succession
The line of succession for the secretary of agriculture is as follows:[8]
- Deputy Secretary of Agriculture
- Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agriculture Services (this position no longer exists)
- Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Administration
- Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services
- Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics
- Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety
- Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment
- Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development
- Under Secretary of Agriculture for Marketing and Regulatory Programs
- General Counsel of the Department of Agriculture
- Chief of Staff, Office of the Secretary
- State Executive Directors of the Farm Service Agency (in order of seniority by length of unbroken tenure) for the States of:
- Regional Administrators of the Food and Nutrition Service (in order of seniority by length of unbroken tenure) for the:
- Mountain Plains Regional Office (Denver, Colorado)
- Midwest Regional Office (Chicago, Illinois)
- Western Regional Office (San Francisco, California)
- Chief Financial Officer of the Department of Agriculture
- Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Civil Rights
- Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Congressional Relations
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