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...With Vilsack as agriculture secretary, Iowans will arguably have more influence over U.S. farm policy than ever before - the Senate Agriculture Committee chairman is Tom Harkin, of Iowa...
...have someone like Tom Vilsack, who understands Iowa the way he does, is going to be a tremendous benefit to us." - Mike Tramontina, director of Iowa's Department of Economic Development, Des Moines Register...
...Since dropping out of the presidential race in 2007, Vilsack has worked as a lawyer in Iowa, been a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and worked for the Iowa State Biosafety Institute...
...after the mayor of Mount Pleasant, the Iowa town where Vilsack lived, was shot and killed, the mayor's father asked him to run for the office. He did in 1987, won and later went on to serve in the Iowa State Senate beginning in 1992. In 1998 he became the first Democratic governor in Iowa in 32 years, winning after being behind by some 20 points in the polls. He served a total of two terms...
...most recent presidential campaign, but he dropped out after just several months, saying he couldn't compete with the fundraising ability of other candidates. He quickly endorsed Hillary Clinton and became a national co-chair of her campaign for the Democratic nomination. Despite Vilsack's support, Clinton lost the Iowa caucus to Barack Obama...