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Ezra Taft Benson

LDS Apostle serves as Secretary of Agriculture

Created 24 Mar 2007

Why these are interesting to me

Before he became President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ezra Taft Benson was Secretary of Agriculture for President Eisenhower. As I am LDS, this is interesting to the history of my church leaders.  So when I was reviewing the Eisenhower photos, I searched for Ezra Taft Benson and these are a few of the images that I've found.

I wrote a blog post about these images last month.

http://footnoteblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/ezra-taft-benson.html

 

Updated 07 Jun 2007 (Created 24 Mar 2007)

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Oath of Office

Jan 1953

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This is a photo of President Benson when he was being sworn in to office as the Secretary of Agriculture under President Eisenhower.  The caption indicates that he was sworn in by Chief Justice Vinson with President Eisenhower looking on in January 1953.

Updated 07 Jun 2007 (Created 24 Mar 2007)

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Showing off a cow

26 May 1953

Where: Dairy Experiment Station at the Beltsville Research Station

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Here is President Benson showing off a cow during President Eisenhower's visit to a Agricultural Research Station in the 50s.

Updated 07 Jun 2007 (Created 24 Mar 2007)

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USDA Conservation Exhibit

30 Nov 1958

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Here President Eisenhower, Secretary Benson, Secretary Morse, Assistant Secretary Coke are inspecting a water conservation exhibit.

Updated 07 Jun 2007 (Created 24 Mar 2007)

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Secretary Benson in the News

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By doing another search on "Ezra Taft Benson" a couple of months later, I found some references to Secretary Benson in the Halifax Gazette and the Gazette Virginian (the same paper that changed names. See more information on them at http://www.footnote.com/documents/6282469/news-gazette-virginian and http://www.footnote.com/documents/6570402/news-halifax-gazette ). While not as cool as the photos, these do highlight some of the issues that President Benson had to deal with as Secretary of Agriculture.

Updated 12 Jul 2007 (Created 12 Jul 2007)

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