Eastern Idaho produced two U.S. agriculture chiefs, but Ezra Taft Benson was the most controversial

IDAHO FALLS – Ezra Taft Benson wasn’t the first eastern Idahoan to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture — but he became one of the most influential and controversial secretaries in the agency’s history. It was January 21, 1953 and the 53-year-old man from Whitney — a small community near Preston — had been tapped […]
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