Orville Lothrop Freeman (May 9 1918 – February 20 2003) was an American Democratic politician who served as the 29th Governor of Minnesota from January 5 1955 to January 2 1961 and as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from 1961 to 1969 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He was one of the founding members of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and strongly influential in the merger of the pre-DFL Minnesota Democratic and Farmer-Labor Parties.
thumbnail
active years end date
1961-01-02, 1969-01-21
active years start date
1955-01-05, 1961-01-20
alma mater
University of Minnesota, University of Minnesota Law School
This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "Orville Freeman"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.
.jpg?width=300)