Mayors of Places in Iowa: Mayors of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Mayors of Des Moines, Iowa, Mayors of Gowrie, Iowa, Tom Vilsack, James B. Weaver

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Mayors of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Mayors of Des Moines, Iowa, Mayors of Gowrie, Iowa, Tom Vilsack, James B. Weaver, Frank M. Ziebach, John N. Irwin, John Brayshaw Kaye, Moses Bloom, Augustus C. Dodge, Samuel Curtis, Thomas J. McKean, Herschel C. Loveless, Henry Vollmer, Brad Zaun, Aylett R. Cotton, Adoniram J. Holmes, Andrew Miller, Bill Schickel, John H. Gear, S. Addison Oliver, Ed H. Campbell, James Grant, Kay Halloran, Daniel F. Miller, Frank Wood, Dawn Pettengill, John N. W. Rumple, Frank Cownie, Brian Schoenjahn, Ron Corbett, Jeremiah Henry Murphy, Thomas Bowman, Hiram Kinsman Evans, Joshua G. Newbold, Dave Tjepkes, Paul Pate, Leo Elthon, LaMetta Wynn, Bill Crews, Sam Juhl, Charles Wright, Tom Hanafan. Excerpt: Thomas James Tom Vilsack (pronounced; born December 12, 1950) is an American politician, a member of the Democratic Party, and presently the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. He served as the 40th Governor of the state of Iowa. He was first elected in 1998 and re-elected to a second four-year term in 2002. On November 30, 2006, he formally launched his candidacy for the Democratic Party's nomination for President of the United States in the 2008 election, but ended his bid on February 23, 2007. Barack Obama announced Vilsack's selection to be the United States Secretary of Agriculture under his administration on December 17, 2008. Vilsack's nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate by unanimous consent on January 20, 2009. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Tom Vilsack was abandoned at birth and placed in a Roman Catholic orphanage. He was adopted in 1951 by Bud and Dolly Vilsack, who raised him in the Roman Catholic faith. His adoptive father was a real-estate agent and insurance salesman, and his adoptive mother was a homemaker. He attended high school at Shady Side Academy, a preparatory school ...