United States Secretary of Agriculture

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Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox official post 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The safety of food produced and sold in the United States is ensured by the United States Food Safety and Inspection Service.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Food Stamp Program works with the states to provide food to low-income people.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Secretary of Agriculture is a Level I position in the Executive Schedule,<ref>Template:UnitedStatesCode</ref> thus earning a salary of US$221,400, as of January 2021.<ref name="Salary">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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:<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} Alt URL</ref>

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United States commissioners of agriculture
No. Portrait Name State of residence Took office Left office President(s)
1 Newton seated Template:Sortname Pennsylvania Template:Dts Template:Dts style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1861–1865)
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(1865–1869)
2 File:Horace Capron.jpg Template:Sortname Illinois Template:Dts Template:Dts
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(1869–1877)
3 File:Frederick Watts.jpg Template:Sortname Pennsylvania Template:Dts Template:Dts
4 File:William G. LeDuc.jpg Template:Sortname Minnesota Template:Dts Template:Dts style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1877–1881)
5 File:George B. Loring - Brady-Handy.jpg Template:Sortname Massachusetts Template:Dts Template:Dts style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1881)
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(1881–1885)
6 File:NJColman.jpg Template:Sortname Missouri Template:Dts Template:Dts style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1885–1889)

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Parties

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Status

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No. Portrait Name State of residence Took office Left office President(s)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">1 File:NJColman.jpg Template:Sortname Missouri Template:Dts Template:Dts style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1885–1889)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">2 File:Jeremiah McLain Rusk - Brady-Handy.jpg Template:Sortname Wisconsin Template:Dts Template:Dts style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1889–1893)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">3 File:JSMorton.jpg Template:Sortname Nebraska Template:Dts Template:Dts style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1893–1897)
rowspan=3 style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">4 File:James Wilson (Secretary of Agriculture 1897-1913) 2003 902 275 f1881m24x.tiff Template:Sortname Iowa Template:Dts Template:Dts style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1897–1901)
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(1901–1909)
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(1909–1913)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">5 File:David F. Houston by Lewis Hine (cropped).jpg Template:Sortname Missouri Template:Dts Template:Dts rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1913–1921)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">6 File:E.T. Meredith, ggbain.16011u.jpg Template:Sortname Iowa Template:Dts Template:Dts
rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">7 File:H. C. Wallace (retouched).jpg Template:Sortname Iowa Template:Dts Template:Dts style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1921–1923)
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(1923–1929)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">8 File:Howard Mason Gore.jpg Template:Sortname West Virginia Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">9 File:W.M. Jardine.jpg Template:Sortname Kansas Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">10 File:Arthur M. Hyde, 10th Secretary of Agriculture, March 1929 - March 1933. - Flickr - USDAgov.jpg Template:Sortname Missouri Template:Dts Template:Dts style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1929–1933)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">11 File:33 Henry Wallace 3x4.jpg Template:Sortname Iowa Template:Dts Template:Dts rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1933–1945)
rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">12 File:Claude R. Wickard, 12th Secretary of Agriculture, September 1940 - June 1945. - Flickr - USDAgov.jpg Template:Sortname Indiana Template:Dts Template:Dts
rowspan=3 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1945–1953)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">13 File:Clinton P. Anderson, 13th Secretary of Agriculture, June 1945 - May 1948. - Flickr - USDAgov.jpg Template:Sortname New Mexico Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">14 File:Charles F. Brannan.jpg Template:Sortname Colorado Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">15 File:Ezra Taft Benson - USDA portrait.gif Template:Sortname Utah Template:Dts Template:Dts style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1953–1961)
rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">16 File:Orville L. Freeman, Secretary of Agriculture (1961-1969).jpg Template:Sortname Minnesota Template:Dts Template:Dts style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1961–1963)
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(1963–1969)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">17 File:Clifford Morris Hardin - USDA portrait.png Template:Sortname Nebraska Template:Dts Template:Dts rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1969–1974)
rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">18 File:Earl Lauer Butz - USDA portrait.png Template:Sortname Indiana Template:Dts Template:Dts
rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1974–1977)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">19 File:John Albert Knebel - USDA portrait.png Template:Sortname Oklahoma Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">20 File:Robert Bergland - USDA portrait.jpg Template:Sortname Minnesota Template:Dts Template:Dts style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1977–1981)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">21 File:John Block.jpg Template:Sortname Illinois Template:Dts Template:Dts rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1981–1989)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">22 File:Richard E. Lyng, 22nd Secretary of Agriculture, March 1986 - January 1989. - Flickr - USDAgov.jpg Template:Sortname California Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">23 File:Clayton Yeutter, 23rd Secretary of Agriculture, February 1989 - March 1991..jpg Template:Sortname Nebraska Template:Dts Template:Dts rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1989–1993)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">24 File:Edward R. Madigan (cropped).jpg Template:Sortname Illinois Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">25 File:Mike Espy.jpg Template:Sortname Mississippi Template:Dts Template:Dts rowspan=3 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(1993–2001)
Template:Ifsubst style="color:black">– File:Rominger Official USDA Portrait.jpg Template:Sortname
Template:Small 		California Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">26 File:Dan Glickman, 26th Secretary of Agriculture, January 1995 - 2001. - Flickr - USDAgov.jpg Template:Sortname Kansas Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">27 File:Ann Veneman.jpg Template:Sortname California Template:Dts Template:Dts rowspan=4 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(2001–2009)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">28 File:Mike Johanns.jpg Template:Sortname Nebraska Template:Dts Template:Dts
Template:Ifsubst style="color:black">– File:Charles F. Conner, official USDA photo portrait.jpg Template:Sortname
Template:Small 		Indiana Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">29 File:Ed Schafer -- February 2008.jpg Template:Sortname North Dakota Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">30 File:Tom Vilsack, official USDA photo portrait.jpg Template:Sortname Iowa Template:Dts Template:Dts rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(2009–2017)
Template:Ifsubst style="color:black">– File:Michael T. Scuse official portrait.JPG Template:Sortname
Template:Small 		Delaware Template:Dts Template:Dts
Template:Ifsubst style="color:black">– File:Michael Young 20170216-DM-RBN-7992 (32557392300).jpg Template:Sortname
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(2017–2021)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">31 File:Secretary Sonny Perdue official photo.jpg Template:Sortname Georgia Template:Dts Template:Dts
Template:Ifsubst style="color:black">– File:Kevin Shea US Dept of Agriculture.jpg Template:Sortname
Template:Small 		Maryland Template:Dts Template:Dts rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" | Template:Sortname
(2021–2025)
style="background: Template:Party color;" |Template:Ifsubst style="color:white">32 File:20210427-OSEC-TEW-001 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack (51148817903).jpg Template:Sortname Iowa Template:Dts Template:Dts
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(2025–present)
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Brooke Rollins
Brooke Rollins
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Line of succession

The line of succession for the secretary of agriculture is as follows:<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

  1. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture
  2. Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agriculture Services (this position no longer exists)
  3. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Administration
  4. Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services
  5. Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics
  6. Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety
  7. Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment
  8. Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development
  9. Under Secretary of Agriculture for Marketing and Regulatory Programs
  10. General Counsel of the Department of Agriculture
  11. Chief of Staff, Office of the Secretary
  12. State Executive Directors of the Farm Service Agency (in order of seniority by length of unbroken tenure) for the States of:
  13. Regional Administrators of the Food and Nutrition Service (in order of seniority by length of unbroken tenure) for the:
  14. Chief Financial Officer of the Department of Agriculture
  15. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Civil Rights
  16. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Congressional Relations

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