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Wallace, Henry A(gard)
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| US vice-president, born in Adair Co, Iowa, USA. With his father he developed the first successful hybrid seed corn (maize). Appointed secretary of agriculture (1933), he carried out policies mandated by the Agriculture Adjustment Act of 1933. In 1940 he was nominated for vice-president after Franklin Roosevelt made it clear that he wanted Wallace, and as an active vice-president he advocated co-operation with the Soviet Union and economic assistance to underdeveloped countries. He was dropped from the ticket in 1944 but still campaigned for Roosevelt. Named secretary of commerce in 1945, he was later dismissed by President Truman for his outspokenness regarding American relations with the Soviet Union. In 1948 he ran unsuccessfully for president as the Progressive Party candidate. In 1952 he published Why I Was Wrong, which explained his new distrust of the Soviet Union. |
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