No. Portrait Name State of residence Took office Left office President(s) 1 Norman Jay Coleman Missouri February 15, 1889 March 6, 1889 Grover Cleveland 2 Jeremiah McLain Rusk Wisconsin March 6, 1889 March 6, 1893 Benjamin Harrison 3 Julius Sterling Morton Nebraska March 7, 1893 March 5, 1897 Grover Cleveland 4 James Wilson Iowa March 5, 1897 March 3, 1913 William McKinley Theodore Roosevelt William Howard Taft 5 David F. Houston Missouri March 6, 1913 February 2, 1920 Woodrow Wilson 6 Edwin T. Meredith Iowa February 2, 1920 March 4, 1921 7 Henry Cantwell Wallace Iowa March 5, 1921 October 25, 1924 Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge 8 Howard Mason Gore West Virginia November 22, 1924 March 4, 1925 9 William Marion Jardine Kansas March 5, 1925 March 4, 1929 10 Arthur M. Hyde Missouri March 6, 1929 March 4, 1933 Herbert Hoover 11 Henry A. Wallace Iowa March 4, 1933 September 4, 1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt 12 Claude R. Wickard Indiana September 5, 1940 June 29, 1945 Harry S. Truman 13 Clinton Presba Anderson New Mexico June 30, 1945 May 10, 1948 14 Charles F. Brannan Colorado June 2, 1948 January 20, 1953 15 Ezra Taft Benson Utah January 21, 1953 January 20, 1961 Dwight D. Eisenhower 16 Orville Freeman Minnesota January 21, 1961 January 20, 1969 John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson 17 Clifford M. Hardin Nebraska January 21, 1969 November 17, 1971 Richard Nixon 18 Earl Butz Indiana December 2, 1971 October 4, 1976 Gerald Ford 19 John Albert Knebel Oklahoma November 4, 1976 January 20, 1977 20 Robert Bergland Minnesota January 23, 1977 January 20, 1981 Jimmy Carter 21 John Rusling Block Illinois January 23, 1981 February 14, 1986 Ronald Reagan 22 Richard Edmund Lyng California March 7, 1986 January 21, 1989 23 Clayton Keith Yeutter Nebraska February 16, 1989 March 1, 1991 George H. W. Bush 24 Edward Rell Madigan Illinois March 8, 1991 January 20, 1993 25 Mike Espy Mississippi January 22, 1993 December 31, 1994 Bill Clinton – Richard Rominger Acting California December 31, 1994 March 30, 1995 26 Dan Glickman Kansas March 30, 1995 January 20, 2001 27 Ann Veneman California January 20, 2001 January 20, 2005 George W. Bush 28 Mike Johanns Nebraska January 21, 2005 September 20, 2007 – Charles F. Conner Acting Indiana September 20, 2007 January 28, 2008 29 Ed Schafer North Dakota January 28, 2008 January 20, 2009 30 Tom Vilsack 1st term Iowa January 20, 2009 January 13, 2017 Barack Obama – Michael Scuse Acting Delaware January 13, 2017 January 20, 2017 – Mike Young Acting January 20, 2017 April 25, 2017 Donald Trump 31 Sonny Perdue Georgia April 25, 2017 January 20, 2021 – Kevin Shea Acting January 20, 2021 February 24, 2021 Joe Biden 32 Tom Vilsack 2nd term Iowa February 24, 2021 Incumbent