After the mayor of Mount Pleasant was gunned down in December 1986, Vilsack led a fundraising drive to build a memorial fountain. He and his wife volunteered in the failed 1988 presidential campaign of then senator Joe Biden. This led him to involvement in the local Chamber of Commerce and United Way. In Mount Pleasant, Vilsack raised funds to rebuild an athletic facility for young people in a 2016 interview, he describes himself "as the Jerry Lewis of Mount Pleasant for a couple days" when he hosted a pledge drive on the local radio station to raise the funds. He received a Juris Doctor from Albany Law School in 1975. While at Hamilton, he joined the Delta Upsilon fraternity. He received a bachelor's degree in 1972 from Hamilton College. Vilsack attended Shady Side Academy, a preparatory high school in Pittsburgh. He was adopted in 1951 by Bud, a real-estate agent and insurance salesman, and Dolly Vilsack. Vilsack was born on Decemin a Roman Catholic orphanage in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where his 23-year-old birth mother (a secretary) had lived since September 1950 under the pseudonym of "Gloria" he was baptized as "Kenneth". 7.1 Nomination and confirmation hearings.7 Secretary of Agriculture (2021–present).On December 10, 2020, then-President-elect Joe Biden announced his intention to nominate Vilsack to once again serve as Secretary of Agriculture in the incoming Biden Administration. Senator Tim Kaine from Virginia was ultimately selected. On July 19, 2016, The Washington Post reported that Vilsack was on Hillary Clinton's two-person shortlist to be her running mate for that year's presidential election. As of the end of that term he was the fourth-longest-serving holder of the office. Cabinet who had served since the day Obama originally took office. Until his Januresignation one week prior to the end of Obama's second term as President, he had been the only member of the U.S. His nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate by unanimous consent on January 20, 2009. Then-President-elect Barack Obama announced Vilsack's selection to be Secretary of Agriculture on December 17, 2008. On November 30, 2006, he formally launched his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 2008 election, but ended his bid on February 23, 2007. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 40th Governor of Iowa from 1999 to 2007. Thomas James Vilsack ( / ˈ v ɪ l s æ k/ born December 13, 1950) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 32nd and current United States Secretary of Agriculture since 2021 under the Biden Administration, previously holding the office from 2009 to 2017 under the Obama Administration.
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