The man who was President Jimmy Carter’s Secretary of Agriculture has died. Bob Bergland was 90 years old and passed away Sunday in his hometown of Roseau, Minnesota.
Before becoming the Secretary, Bergland was a farmer and a Congressman for three full terms and resigned early in his fourth term to become Secretary of Agriculture. He was also an employee at the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service from 1963 to 1968 before it became the Farm Service Agency.
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