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'''Henry Agard Wallace''' '''(1888 - 18 November 1965)''' was a [[Democratic]] politician and the second Vice President under [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] from 1941-1945. He was not renominated as Roosevelt's running mate in 1944.
'''Henry Agard Wallace''' '''(1888 - 18 November 1965)''' was a [[Democratic]] politician and the second Vice President under [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] from 1941-1945. He was not renominated as Roosevelt's running mate in 1944.
==Early life==
Wallace was born in 1888 on an Iowa farm. He went to the State Agricultural College, came out at the age of 22 and worked on the staff of a publication called Wallace's Farmer, which had been founded by his grandfather. His father went to Washington in 1921 as Secretary of Agriculture and Henry became editor of Wallace's Farmer. He remained editor until 1931.
==Mystical beliefs==
Wallace was interested in mysticism. His early life was in the Presbyterian Church, at college he became skeptical for a brief interval, but turned again to what he called "the necessity of believing in God, imminent as well as transcendental." He began attending the Roman Catholic Church, but later switched to the High Episcopal Church.
Several journalists have written about him say that he had probed into Buddhism, Confucianism and other mysteries and beliefs of the Orient, and that he studied [[astrology]] and knew how horoscopes were drawn.
==Department of Agriculture==
In 1933 he was made Secretary of Agriculture by Roosevelt. He was a registered Republican at the time.
The ''Baltimore Sun'' referred to him as "one of the most admirable and ridiculous figures of the New Deal." Wallace brought men like [[Rexford G. Tugwell]] into the Department as his Under Secretary of Agriculture. It is very clear that Wallace became slowly infected by Tugwell with the theory of [[State Planning]]. Mordecai Ezekiel, who believed thoroughly in state planning and had a plan for $2500 a year for everybody, jobs for all and security from cradle to the grave, was his economic adviser in the Agricultural Department.
Wallace told the Federal Council of Churches on December 7, 1933 that the times would have to get more difficult in order to soften the hearts of the people and move them "sufficiently so they will be willing to join together in the modern adaptation of the [[theocracy]] of old."
Wallace headed the [[Agricultural Adjustment Administration]] (AAA) in the early days of Roosevelt’s [[New Deal]]. The AAA was later found [[unconstitutional]] by the [[United States Supreme Court]].
Wallace headed the [[Agricultural Adjustment Administration]] (AAA) in the early days of Roosevelt’s [[New Deal]]. The AAA was later found [[unconstitutional]] by the [[United States Supreme Court]].