Thomas J Vilsac
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
BY:KESHARA REID
BACKGROUND/HISTORY
- Born December 13, 1960age 63
- Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- He received a bachelor degree in 1972 from Hamilton College
- While at Hamilton he joined the Delta Upsilon Fraternity
- He received a Juris Doctor (J.D.) in 1975 from Albany Law School.
JOB DESCRIPTION
- He is the Secretary of Agriculture
- Vilsack is working hard to strengthen the American agricultural economy
- To protect and conserve our natural resources
- Implement President Obama’s ambitious agenda to turn around the economy & put Americans back to work.
- He is working to improve the health of America’s children
FAMILY
- Wife name is Ann Christine "Christie" Bell
- 2 children Jess & Doug Vilsack
- He and his wife settled in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, in 1975
- He was adopted in 1951 by Bud and Dolly Vilsack.
- Bud Vilsack was a real-estate agent and insurance salesman, and Dolly was a homemaker.
MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENT
- Provided more than 134,000 loans to family farmers
- Improved infrastructure and technical assistance for smaller-scale producers.
- Helped lead efforts to promote the economic potential of the emerging biobased economy.
- Enrolled a record number of acres of private working lands in conservation programs
- Carried out more than 8,000 community facilities projects reaching nearly 31 million rural Americans
PEOPLE UNDER HIM
POLITICAL PARTY
- Democratic Party
- Vilsack served as the 40th Governor of Iowa from 1999 to 2007.
- On November 30, 2006, he formally launched his candidacy for the Democratic Party's nomination for President of the United States in the 2008 election
OTHER JOBS
MISCELLENOUS
- Vilsack was elected mayor of Mount Pleasant in 1987.
- He helped pass a law for workers to receive health coverage when changing jobs
- Helped re-design Iowa's Workforce Development Department
- He also wrote a bill to have the State of Iowa assume a 50% share of local county mental health costs.
- In 2002 he won his second term in office by defeating Republican challenger attorney Doug Gross by eight points.
MISCELLENOUS CONTINUED
- On January 24, 2012, Secretary Vilsack was named the designated survivor by President Obama during the President's State of the Union address.
- Vilsack met his wife, Ann Christine "Christie" Bell, in a cafeteria while at college in New York in October 1968.
- On May 1, 2006 Vilsack joined the Board of Directors of Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Learning
- Vilsack meets with Chinese Minister of Science and Technology Wan Gang in Beijing, China, on November 10, 2011.
- Vilsack has governed a largely agricultural state as did the previous two Secretaries of Agriculture
