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Jeremiah McLain Rusk
2nd United States Secretary of Agriculture
In office
March 6, 1889 – March 6, 1893
PresidentBenjamin Harrison
Preceded byNorman J. Coleman
Succeeded byJulius S. Morton
Personal details
Born(1830-06-17)June 17, 1830
Malta, Ohio, U.S.
DiedNovember 21, 1893(1893-11-21) (aged 63)
Viroqua, Wisconsin, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
ProfessionPolitician, Banker, Farmer
Military service
Branch/serviceUnion Army
RankLieutenant Colonel (brevet general)
Unit25th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Battles/warsAmerican Civil War

Jeremiah McLain Rusk (June 17, 1830– November 21, 1893) was the 15th Governor of the U.S. state of Wisconsin from 1882 to 1889 and the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from 1889 to 1893.

Biography

Representative Jeremiah M. Rusk

Rusk was born in Malta, Ohio.[1] He was a member of the Republican Party. He began as a planter, then turned to innkeeping and finally to banking before the Civil War. During the war, he received a brevet appointment as a general and saw action with the 25th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry.[2]

After the Civil War, he became a congressman in the United States House of Representatives.[2] There, he was chairman of Committee on Invalid Pensions (forty-third congress). He then ran as a Republican for Governor of Wisconsin, an election he won.[2] His most noted act during his governorship was when he sent the National Guard into Milwaukee to keep the peace during the May Day Labor Strikes of 1886. The strikers had shut down every business in the city except the North Chicago Rolling Mills in Bay View. The guardsmen's orders were that, if the strikers were to enter the Mills, they should shoot to kill. But when the captain received the order it had a different meaning: he ordered his men to pick out a man and shoot to kill when the order was given. This led to the Bay View Tragedy, in which a number of workers were killed; Governor Rusk took most of the blame.

In 1889, after the end of his third term as governor, he accepted the new cabinet position of Secretary of Agriculture in the Benjamin Harrison administration.[2] He lived, died and was buried in Viroqua, Wisconsin.[3]

See also

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References

  1. ^ "Rusk, Jeremiah McLain (1830–1893)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. United States Congress. Retrieved 20 December 2010.
  2. ^ a b c d Spetter, Allan. "Jeremiah M. Rusk (1889–1893): Secretary of Agriculture". American President: An Online Reference Resource. University of Virginia. Retrieved 20 December 2010.
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