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Henry Wallace (1866-1924), American editor and writer on agriculture and a public official. Born in Rock Island, Illinois, and educated at Iowa State Agricultural College (now Iowa State University of Science and Technology), Wallace joined his father, Henry Wallace, in publishing Wallace's Farmer in 1895, serving as editor of the journal from 1916 until his death. He was also United States secretary of agriculture from 1921 to 1924, in the Cabinets of Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge. His son, Henry Agard Wallace, served as US vice-president from 1941 to 1945.

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