Ilo Wallace (

née The birth name is the name of the person given upon their birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name or to the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a births registe ...

Browne; March 10, 1888 – February 22, 1981) was the wife of

Henry A. Wallace Henry Agard Wallace (October 7, 1888 – November 18, 1965) was the 33rd vice president of the United States, serving from 1941 to 1945, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He served as the 11th U.S. secretary of agriculture and the 10th U.S ...

, the 33rd

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. She was the

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from 1941 until 1945. She was the sponsor of the battleship . Born in

Indianola, Iowa Indianola is city in and county seat of Warren County, Iowa, United States, located south of downtown Des Moines. The population was 15,833 at the time of the 2020 census. Indianola is home to the National Balloon Classic, a nine-day hot ai ...

, she was the daughter of James Lytle Browne and his wife, the former Harriet Lindsay. She attended

Simpson College Simpson College is a Private college, private United Methodist Church, Methodist college in Indianola, Iowa. It is Higher education accreditation in the United States, accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and enrolled 1,151 students in ...

before transferring to study voice at

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. She married Henry Agard Wallace in

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, on May 20, 1914. They had three children: Henry Browne Wallace (1915–2005), Robert Browne Wallace (1918–2002), and Jean Browne Wallace (1920–2011). Her husband later became the editor-in-chief of '' Wallace's Farmer'', an influential Midwestern farming magazine that had been founded by his father, Henry Cantwell Wallace, who was the

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from 1921 to 1924. A small inheritance she received from her parents enabled the Wallaces and their business partners to establish, in 1926, the Hi-Bred Corn Company, which developed and distributed hybrid corn and eventually transformed agriculture. On February 22, 1981, aged 92, she died at the Wallace estate, Farvue Farm, in

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. Her funeral was private at her family's request.

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