Wallace, Henry A. (1888-1965)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1965 Nov 25 p. 3

Birth date: 1888 Oct 7

text of obituary:

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Former V.-Pres. Henry Wallace Dies at Age 77

Henry A. Wallace, former New Deal cabinet member and vice-president during one term at the Roosevelt administration, died at Danbury, Conn. on Nov. 18 at the age-of 77.

In 1949 Wallace was the Progressive party candidate for president, at which time he was widely criticized as being pro-Communist. The charges were entirely unfounded, however, and he was later defended by the press and government leaders as "a politician and a philosopher who was devoted and dedicated to peace."

Born in Adair County, Iowa, Oct 7, 1888, Wallace was the grandson of the founder of Wallace's Farmer, a publication for general agriculture and crop improvement.