United States commissioners of agriculture No. Portrait Name State of residence Took office Left office President(s) 1 Isaac Newton Pennsylvania July 1, 1862 June 19, 1867 Abraham Lincoln Andrew Johnson 2 Horace Capron December 4, 1867 July 31, 1871 Ulysses S. Grant 3 Frederick Watts Pennsylvania August 1, 1871 1877 4 William Gates LeDuc Minnesota July 1, 1877 1881 Rutherford B. Hayes 5 George B. Loring Massachusetts July 1, 1881 1885 James A. Garfield Chester A. Arthur 6 Norman Jay Coleman Missouri April 3, 1885 February 14, 1889 Grover Cleveland