[1] United Brethren Church. Father: Andrew Jackson Wickard
Mother: Iva Lenora Kirkpatrick
Wife: Louise Eckert (m. 1918)
Daughter: Betty Jane
Daughter: Ann Louise
University: BS Agriculture, Purdue University (1915)
US Agriculture Department Administrator, Rural Electrification Administration (1945-53)
US Secretary of Agriculture (1940-45)
US Agriculture Department Director, Central Division, Agricultural Adjustment Admin. (1937-40)
US Agriculture Department Chief, Corn-Hog Division, Agricultural Adjustment Admin. (1933-37)
Indiana State Senate (1932)
Farm Bureau
Freemasonry
Grange
Rotary International
Shriners