Henry Wallace was born on October 7, 1888 in Adair County, Iowa, USA as Henry Agard Wallace. He was an actor, known for Universal Newsreel (1945), Paramount Victory Short No. T2-3: The Price of Victory (1942) and One Inch from Victory (1944). He was married to Ilo Browne. He died on November 18, 1965 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.
Son of Henry C. Wallace, who served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from 1921-1924.
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In 1948 he helped launch a new Progressive party, which charged the administration of President Harry S. Truman with primary responsibility for the Cold War. Wallace left the party in 1950 after it had repudiated his endorsement of the U.S.-UN intervention in South Korea.
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In 1945, shortly before President Franklin D. Roosevelt's death, he became Secretary of Commerce. He held that position until September, 1946, when he was forced to resign because of his open opposition to President Harry S. Truman's foreign policy.
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In 1933 he was appointed Secretary of Agriculture by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and soon led in the reorganization of the Dept. of Agriculture and in the supervision of the Agricultural Adjustment Agency.
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He had developed several strains of hybrid corn that were to be used extensively by farmers in the American "Corn Belt", and his writings on farm economics and plant genetics quickly won him recognition as an agrarian authority.
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He was (1910-1924) associate editor of "Wallaces' Farmer," an influential agricultural periodical run by his family, and when his father, Henry Cantwell Wallace, died in 1924, he became editor.
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He edited (1946-1948) "The New Republic.".
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A Republican until 1928, Wallace helped swing Iowa to the Democratic party in the 1932 election.
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(1941-1945) Vice President of the United States
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Person to Person
1957
TV Series documentary
Himself
Longines Chronoscope
1951-1952
TV Series
Himself - Former U.S. Vice-President / Himself - former U.S. Vice-President
Universal Newsreel
1945/VII
Documentary short
Himself - Commerce Secretary Nominee
One Inch from Victory
1944
Documentary
Himself
Paramount Victory Short No. T2-3: The Price of Victory
1942
Documentary short
Himself / narrator
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Untold History of the United States
2012
TV Series documentary
Himself - Vice President / Himself - Secretary of Agriculture