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Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Audio/Video Archives Collection, Photograph No. a935-18a
Orville L. Freeman
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Audio/Video Archives Collection…
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Audio/Video Archives Collection, Photograph No. a935-18a

Orville L. Freeman

United States, 1918 - 2003
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A close political associate of Hubert Humphrey in their home state of Minnesota, Freeman was elected as a progressive governor of the state in 1954 while Humphrey served as mayor of Minneapolis. After losing his bid for re-election in 1960, President Kennedy appointed Freeman Secretary of Agriculture and he served in that post until 1969.
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