United States Secretary of Agriculture

United States Secretary of Agriculture
Official Seal
Incumbent Sonny Perdue since April 25, 2017
Formation	February 15, 1889
First holder	Norman Jay Coleman
Succession	Ninth
Website	www.usda.gov

The United States Secretary of Agriculture is the head of the United States Department of Agriculture. The position carries similar responsibilities to agriculture ministers of other governments.

Secretaries of Agriculture

The following is a list of Secretaries of Agriculture, since the creation of the office in 1889.

Parties

      Democratic (13)       Republican (18)

No.	Portrait	Name	State of Residence	Took Office	Left Office	President(s)
1		Norman J. Coleman	Missouri	February 15, 1889	March 6, 1889		Grover Cleveland
2		Jeremiah M. Rusk	Wisconsin	March 6, 1889	March 6, 1893		Benjamin Harrison
3		J. Sterling Morton	Nebraska	March 7, 1893	March 5, 1897		Grover Cleveland
4		James Wilson	Iowa	March 5, 1897	March 3, 1913		William McKinley
							Theodore Roosevelt
							William Howard Taft
							Woodrow Wilson
5		David F. Houston	Missouri	March 6, 1913	February 2, 1920
6		Edwin T. Meredith	Iowa	February 2, 1920	March 4, 1921
7		Henry C. Wallace	Iowa	March 5, 1921	October 25, 1924		Warren G. Harding
							Calvin Coolidge
8		Howard M. Gore	West Virginia	November 22, 1924	March 4, 1925
9		William M. Jardine	Kansas	March 5, 1925	March 4, 1929
10		Arthur M. Hyde	Missouri	March 6, 1929	March 4, 1933		Herbert Hoover
11		Henry A. Wallace	Iowa	March 4, 1933	September 4, 1940		Franklin D. Roosevelt
12		Claude R. Wickard	Indiana	September 5, 1940	June 29, 1945
							Harry S. Truman
13		Clinton P. Anderson	New Mexico	June 30, 1945	May 10, 1948
14		Charles F. Brannan	Colorado	June 2, 1948	January 20, 1953
15		Ezra Taft Benson	Utah	January 21, 1953	January 20, 1961		Dwight D. Eisenhower
16		Orville Freeman	Minnesota	January 21, 1961	January 20, 1969		John F. Kennedy
							Lyndon B. Johnson
17		Clifford M. Hardin	Nebraska	January 21, 1969	November 17, 1971		Richard Nixon
18		Earl Butz	Indiana	December 2, 1971	October 4, 1976
							Gerald Ford
19		John A. Knebel	Oklahoma	November 4, 1976	January 20, 1977
20		Robert Bergland	Minnesota	January 23, 1977	January 20, 1981		Jimmy Carter
21		John R. Block	Illinois	January 23, 1981	February 14, 1986		Ronald Reagan
22		Richard E. Lyng	California	March 7, 1986	January 21, 1989
23		Clayton K. Yeutter	Nebraska	February 16, 1989	March 1, 1991		George H. W. Bush
24		Edward R. Madigan	Illinois	March 8, 1991	January 20, 1993
25		Mike Espy	Mississippi	January 22, 1993	December 31, 1994		Bill Clinton
26		Dan Glickman	Kansas	March 30, 1995	January 20, 2001
27		Ann Veneman	California	January 20, 2001	January 20, 2005		George W. Bush
28		Mike Johanns	Nebraska	January 21, 2005	September 20, 2007
29		Ed Schafer	North Dakota	January 28, 2008	January 20, 2009
30		Tom Vilsack	Iowa	January 20, 2009	January 13, 2017		Barack Obama
–		Michael Scuse Acting	Delaware	January 13, 2017	January 20, 2017
–		Mike Young Acting		January 20, 2017	April 25, 2017		Donald Trump
31		Sonny Perdue	Georgia	April 25, 2017	Incumbent