Albert Joel "A. J." Loveland (May 9, 1893 – August 7, 1961), served as Under-Secretary of Agriculture, now known as

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, under President

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. Loveland was appointed to the post by Truman in 1948 and served until March 27, 1950, to run for congress. A member of the

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, Loveland ran unsuccessfully against Republican Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper for the U.S. Senate election in 1950. Loveland's first public office was as a member of the Janesville School Board. He was a graduate of Janesville High School and the College of Commerce in

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. He was one of the founding members of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration during the

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, later serving chairman of that organization in

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. From 1941 until 1945, Loveland was the chairman of the Iowa State War Board for Agriculture.

Electoral history

Personal life

Born on the family farm just east of

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, Loveland was the oldest of seven children born to Wilbert B. and Cora Loveland, and the grandson of Dr. Joel Loveland. Albert J. Loveland was a third-generation farmer, carrying on his father's herd of registered Holstein cattle. Married on July 15, 1914, to Vivian Slaughter, Albert J. Loveland was the father of four children. At the time of his death, he still resided on the family farm where he was born. Loveland is buried at Oakland Cemetery near Janesville.

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* United States Department of Agriculture officials Iowa Democrats School board members in Iowa 1893 births 1961 deaths People from Janesville, Iowa 20th-century American politicians {{US-gov-bio-stub