Charles F. Brannan

Charles Franklin Brannan ( born August 23, 1903 in Denver, Colorado, † July 2, 1992 ) was an American lawyer and politician who belonged to the cabinet of U.S. President Harry S. Truman as Minister of Agriculture.

Charles Brannan made ​​1929 his law degree from the University of Denver. In the same year he was admitted to the Bar of Colorado. 1935 President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him as deputy regional legal adviser to the Resettlement Administration, a part of the New Deal program under the supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture. Brannan was active in the following years in other functions for the ministry before he Regional Director of the Farm Security Administration for Colorado, Montana and Wyoming in 1941. He also served for a short time as deputy head of that authority, brought him before President Roosevelt as deputy agriculture minister in the government.

This he did under Roosevelt's successor, Harry S. Truman, then at the beginning of his second term in 1948 promoted him to Minister. He failed in 1949 with the eponymous Brannan Plan. This should ensure as part of the Fair Deal program of President Truman farmers' incomes, while at the same time, the market determined the prices of their goods. The plan was rejected by the Republican majority in Congress.

With the end of the second term of President Truman and Charles Brannan retired from the federal government. He was chief legal adviser to the National Farmers Union and was in 1962 again briefly worked as an advisor to the Ministry of Agriculture. Brannan died on 2 July 1992 as the last member of the Truman Cabinet.