Claude Raymond Wickard (1893-1967), born in Indiana, Secretary of Agriculture under President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1940 to 1945. Graduated from Purdue University in 1915, with a bachelor's degree in agriculture. Elected to Indiana State Senate in 1932, served as a Food Administrator for four months in 1942. Resigned in 1945 to become administrator for the Rural Electrification Administration, until 1953. Wickard died in 1967.
