What is Norman Jay Coleman?
{{Infobox US Cabinet official | name=Norman Jay Coleman | image=NJColman.jpg | order=1st | title=[[United States Secretary of Agriculture]] | term_start=February 15, 1889 | term_end=March 6, 1889 | predecessor=''(none)'' | successor=[[Jeremiah McLain Rusk|Jeremiah M. Rusk]] | birth_date={{birth date|1827|5|16|mf=y}} | birth_place=[[Richfield Springs, New York]], [[United States|U.S.]] | death_date={{death date and age|1911|11|3|1827|5|16|mf=y}} | death_place=[[St. Louis, Missouri]], [[United States|U.S.]] | party=[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] | spouse= | alma_mater=[[University of Louisville]] | profession=[[Politician]], [[Publisher]] | religion= }} '''Norman Jay Coleman''' (May 16, 1827 – November 3, 1911)<ref name=Graveyard/> was a [[newspaper]] [[publisher]] and the first [[United States Secretary of Agriculture]]. Coleman was born in [[Richfield Springs, New York]] in 1827 to Hamilton and Nancy Coleman.<ref name=Graveyard/> He received a law [[Degree (school)|degree]] from the [[University of Louisville]] Law School in 1849.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/cleveland/essays/cabinet/379|title=Miller Center|accessdate=2010-01-05|archive-date=2010-03-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100326000008/http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/cleveland/essays/cabinet/379|url-status=dead}}</ref> Coleman then moved to [[Missouri]] and went into farming. In 1855 he started the ''Valley Farmer'' newspaper. As a [[wikt:result|result]] of the newspaper, Coleman became an [[wikt:important|important]] person in the Missouri farming [[community]], which helped him become a [[member]] of the [[Missouri House of Representatives]]. Coleman’s newspaper stopped due to the [[American Civil War]], but three years after the war he started the ''Coleman’s Rural World''. His [[career]] in [[politics]] continued when he was made the [[Lieutenant Governor of Missouri]] from 1875 to 1877.<ref name=Graveyard/> During that time he worked to make [[United States Depa