WALLACE, HENRY AGARD ), American cabinet officer, born in Adair County, Ia. on Oct. 7, 1888, was the son of H. C. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture under Harding and Coolidge. After graduation from Iowa State College (1910) Henry became associate editor of his grandfather's paper Wallace's Farmer and full editor after his father's death in 1924. In 1932
he stumped Iowa for Roosevelt and on the latter's election was given the post of Secretary of Agriculture. His programme as adopted in May 1933 included credit and crop control measures. He has written "America Must Choose" and "New Frontiers."