Charles F. Brannan

Charles F. Brannan

Charles Franklin Brannan (born August 23, 1903 in Denver , Colorado , †  July 2, 1992 ibid) was an American lawyer and politician who was a member of the cabinet of US President Harry S. Truman as Secretary of Agriculture .

Life

Charles Brannan graduated from the University of Denver with a law degree in 1929 . That same year he was inducted into the Colorado Bar Association. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him assistant regional legal advisor to the Resettlement Administration , part of the New Deal program under the supervision of the Department of Agriculture. Brannan served in other roles for the department in the years that followed before becoming regional director of the Farm Security Administration for Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming in 1941 . He also served as deputy head of that agency for a short time before President Roosevelt brought him into government as deputy minister of agriculture.

He remained so under Roosevelt's successor Harry S. Truman, who then promoted him to Minister at the beginning of his second term in 1948. He failed in 1949 with the Brannan Plan named after him . As part of President Truman's Fair Deal program, this was supposed to secure farmers' incomes while the market determined the prices of their goods. The plan was rejected by the Republican majority in Congress .

With the end of President Truman's second term, Charles Brannan also left the federal government. He became the chief legal advisor to the National Farmers Union and was again briefly active in 1962 in an advisory capacity for the Ministry of Agriculture. Brannan died on July 2, 1992, the last member of the Truman cabinet .

literature

• Charles F. Brannan , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 01/1954 from December 28, 1953, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Web links

• Charles F. Brannan in nndb (English)
• Charles F. Brannan in the Miller Center of Public Affairs of the University of Virginia (English)
• Charles F. Brannan at The Political Graveyard
• Newspaper article about Charles F. Brannan in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .