Edwin T. Meredith

Edwin Thomas Meredith ( born December 23, 1876 in Avoca, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, † June 17, 1928 ) was an American businessman and politician, who was the Cabinet of President Woodrow Wilson as Minister of Agriculture.

Edwin Meredith received his training at the Highland Park College in Des Moines. Later he was active in the newspaper industry and took over in 1894 the post of General Manager at the Farmer's Tribune. This Week newspaper, which was devoted to the interests of farmers, led by his grandfather; it was also an organ of the Populist Party dar. 1896 when he took on himself the management of the publication, which he held until 1902; This year, he founded the Meredith Corporation his own company and was with Successful Farming a new newspaper out that already reached in 1908 a figure of 100,000 readers. He later also served as president of the interest group of editors of agricultural papers.

After he had first heard of the Populist Party, he became politically active after their demise at the Democrats. In 1914 he ran for a seat in the U.S. Senate, but remained as unsuccessful as in 1916 in the election for Governor of Iowa. From 1915 he was for it at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

In 1918 he was appointed by President Wilson in an advisory committee of the Ministry of Finance. As Minister of Agriculture David F. Houston moved to the Ministry of Finance within the Cabinet on February 2, 1920, Meredith took his place. In the same year he applied for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party, but had just as little a chance as when you try again four years later.

Meredith returned to his time in the Cabinet, which ended on March 4, 1921 back into the publishing business. He bought the newspaper Dairy Farmer and was the New Release Fruit, Garden, Home and out, which was later to Better Homes and Gardens, one of the many years of successful consumer magazines in the United States. Edwin Meredith died in 1928.