death_date death_place birth_name birth_place children religion party title term_end birth_date term_start spouse article_title state name alma_mater
7 august 1961 rochester , minnesota , u.s. albert joel loveland east of janesville , iowa , u.s. betty , russell , florence , ronald christian , methodist democratic democratic united states under secretary of agriculture march 27 , 1950 9 may 1893 1948 vivian slaughter -lrb- 1914 -- 1961 -rrb- albert j. loveland
 iowa albert j. loveland college of commerce
albert j. loveland

albert joel `` a. j. '' loveland -lrb- may 9 , 1893 -- august 7 , 1961 -rrb- , served as under-secretary of agriculture , now known as united states deputy secretary of agriculture , under president harry s. truman .
loveland was appointed to the post by truman in 1948 and served until march 27 , 1950 to run for congress .
a member of the democratic party , 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 waterloo , iowa .
he was one of the founding members of the agricultural adjustment administration during the great depression , later serving chairman of that organization in iowa .
from 1941 until 1945 , loveland was the chairman of the iowa state war board for agriculture .
