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'''Henry Agard Wallace''' '''(1888 - 1965)''' was a farm leader, agriculture secretary (1933–40) [[Democratic]] politician, and Vice President under [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] from 1941-1945. After a disastrous term as vice president, he was dropped from the ticket in 1944 despite strong support from the left. He became Secretary of Commerce, but opposed President [[Harry Truman]] on the [[Cold War]], arguing for friendship with the Soviet Union. He was fired, then by Truman ran for president in 1948, but the Communist party took control of his campaign and he won few votes. Disillusioned, Wallace returned to business, where his hybrid corn business was a huge success. He left a fortune of several billion dollars at his death. Wallace was a major [[New Deal]] spokesman and liberal leader 1933-48.
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Working independently Wallace made some major contributions to statistics and agronomy, including an innovative use of multiple correlations correlations explaining levels for hogs. He experimented with various strains of corn and produced the first hybrid corn suitable for commercial use. In 1926, Wallace established the Hi-Bred Corn Company, which pioneered an important new industry and in time provided him with substantial financial returns.
His father Henry C. Wallace, a Republican, went to Washington in 1921 as Secretary of Agriculture and Henry became editor of ''Wallace's Farmer''. He remained editor until 1931 and was one of the major intellectual figures in agriculture in the 1920s.
==Department of Agriculture==
In 1933 he was made Secretary of Agriculture by Roosevelt. He was a registered Republican at the time. Leftist intellectual [[Rexford Guy Tugwell]] took the #2 role as Assistant Secretary of Agriculture.
==War cabinet==
As Vice President, Wallace chaired the [[Board of Economic Warfare]] (BEW) as a member of FDR's secret "war cabinet".
Someone observed, he set himself up "as the conscience of the world." Roosevelt critic John T. Flynn characterized Wallace by saying, "Wallace was indeed as odd a bird as had ever perched upon a cabinet post...There was a good deal of the element of stage comedy in him - wide, queer streaks in his make-up that would excite laughter in the theater but which do not originate in any merry or comic sense in his own character and which cannot by any stretch of the imagination be regarded as funny against the dark background of the events of the time." <ref>''The Roosevelt Myth'', John T. Flynn, Fox and Wilkes, 1948, Book 2, Chapter 10, [http://www.rooseveltmyth.com/book/fdrmyth_Chapter_Ten___Henry_Wallace.htm ''Henry Wallace''].</ref>
==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.
Wallace apparently fired Roerich while he was in Asia. Subsequently Horch filed suit to recover his investment of $1,100,000 and got possession of the Museum building. In 1942 Horch was transferred from the Department of Agriculture to the [[Board of Economic Warfare]] of which Wallace was the head and Milo Perkins executive director. When Wallace became Secretary of Commerce he made Horch chief of the supply division in the New York office of the [[Foreign Economic Administration]].
===Dear Guru letters===
Just prior to the [[United States presidential election, 1940|1940 election]] Republican leaders received a batch of letters in handwriting on Department of Agriculture stationery written to Roerich. Having proved the authenticity of Wallace being the author through expert handwriting examination, they considered making them public. [[Harry Hopkins]], then managing the Roosevelt/Wallace campaign, went to [[Wendell Willkie]], the GOP candidate, and told him that if the Wallace correspondence became public, then so would embarrassing information about Willkie's adulterous private life.
==1948 Presidential bid==
[[file:WallaceEggs.jpg|thumb|220px|Wallace with egg on his shirt]]
He ran as the [[Progressive party]] nominee in the [[United States presidential election of 1948|presidential election of 1948]], but lost to [[Harry Truman]]. Far left elements and the Communist party took control of most of his campaign, to his dismay. Former New Deal economist and Soviet spy [[Harry Magdoff]] was an advisor and speechwriter during Wallace’s 1948 unsuccessful bid.
At a campaign stops in Greensboro as well as Burlington, North Carolina, Wallace was pelted with eggs and tomatoes. Wallace rushed into the crowd at one of the stops and grabbed a man.<ref>[https://www.loc.gov/item/2004672507/ Burlington, N.C., finally losing his temper at a barrage of eggs and tomatoes hurled when he appeared here, Henry Wallace rushes into crowd grabbing a middle-aged man by the arms, shaking him bodily]</ref><ref>http://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3c30000/3c34000/3c34500/3c34520v.jpg</ref>
==Subversion in Government Investigation==
In 1944 the Institute of Pacific Relations, according to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, "disseminated and sought to popularize false information including information originating from Soviet and Communist sources," <ref>US Senate, 82nd Congress, 2nd Session, Committee on the Judiciary, Institute of Pacific Relations, Report No. 2050, p. 223.</ref> published a fifty-six-page pamphlet, ''Our Job in Asia'', which was allegedly written by Vice-President Wallace. "The Russians," the author of the pamphlet claimed, "have demonstrated their friendly attitude toward China by their willingness to refrain from intervening in China's internal affairs." Some years later—after the collapse of the American allied [[Kuomintang]] government to the [[Comintern]] sponsored [[Maoist]] regime and in the midst of the [[Korean War]] which cost 53,000 American lives, on October 17, 1951, Wallace testified before the [[Senate Internal Security Subcommittee]]. Wallace admitted: "It begins to look, for the time being at any rate, that my size-up as made in 1944 was incorrect." <ref>US Senate, 82nd Congress, 1st Session, Committee on the Judiciary, Institute of Pacific Relations, Part V, pp. 1302, 1206.</ref> Wallace further admitted under oath that most of a book entitled ''Soviet Asia Mission'' written under his name detailing his official trip to Soviet Siberia and China in 1944 had actually been written by Andrew J. Steiger, a person identified under oath as a member of the [[Communist party]]. The Communist party at that time advocated the violent overthrow of the [[United States]] Constitution. To [[Joseph Fels Barnes]], [[Owen Lattimore]], and Harriet Lucy Moore, all of whom had been named under oath as Communist party members, Wallace expressed his gratitude for their "invaluable assistance in preparing the manuscript." <ref>[http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/yaltabet.html ''The Yalta Betrayal''], Felix Wittmer, Caxton Printers, 1953, pg. 59.</ref>
In 1944 the Institute of Pacific Relations, according to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, "disseminated and sought to popularize false information including information originating from Soviet and Communist sources," <ref>US Senate, 82nd Congress, 2nd Session, Committee on the Judiciary, Institute of Pacific Relations, Report No. 2050, p. 223.</ref> published a fifty-six-page pamphlet, ''Our Job in Asia'', which was allegedly written by Vice-President Wallace. "The Russians," the author of the pamphlet claimed, "have demonstrated their friendly attitude toward China by their willingness to refrain from intervening in China's internal affairs." Some years later—after the collapse of the American allied [[Kuomintang]] government to the [[Comintern]] sponsored [[Maoist]] regime and in the midst of the [[Korean War]] which cost 53,000 American lives, on October 17, 1951, Wallace testified before the [[Senate Internal Security Subcommittee]]. Wallace admitted: "It begins to look, for the time being at any rate, that my size-up as made in 1944 was incorrect." <ref>US Senate, 82nd Congress, 1st Session, Committee on the Judiciary, Institute of Pacific Relations, Part V, pp. 1302, 1206.</ref> Wallace further admitted under oath that most of a book entitled ''Soviet Asia Mission'' written under his name detailing his official trip to Soviet Siberia and China in 1944 had actually been written by Andrew J. Steiger, a person identified under oath as a member of the [[Communist party]]. The Communist party at that time advocated the violent overthrow of the [[United States]] Constitution. To [[Joseph Fels Barnes]], [[Owen Lattimore]], and Harriet Lucy Moore, all of whom had been named under oath as Communist party members, Wallace expressed his gratitude for their "invaluable assistance in preparing the manuscript." <ref>[http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/yaltabet.html ''The Yalta Betrayal''], Felix Wittmer, Caxton Printers, 1953, pg. 59.</ref>
==Further reading==
* Culver, John C. and John Hyde. ''American Dreamer: A Life of Henry A. Wallace'' (2001) [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393322289/qid=1073502902/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-3227608-3924622?v=glance&s=books excerpt and text search], liberal biography
* Walton, Richard J. ''Henry Wallace, Harry Truman and the Cold War'' (1976).
* Yarnell, Allen ''Democrats and Progressives'' (1974).
===Primary sources===
* Wallace, Henry. ''The Price of Vision'', ed. by John Morton Blum (1973). Diaries from 1940s.
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