Tom Vilsack

Tom Vilsack interests me precisely because he is not flashy. Lawyer, mayor, governor of Iowa for eight years, then United States Secretary of Agriculture under two different presidents a decade apart. Being called back to the same demanding post by both Obama and Biden tells me something money cannot buy: institutional trust. Agriculture rarely makes headlines, yet it underpins everything, and choosing to spend a career on that quiet machinery says a lot about temperament. I tend to respect public servants measured by continuity rather than spectacle, and Vilsack is a textbook case of durable, low-drama competence.

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Name (English)

Tom Vilsack

Name (Japanese)

トマス・ジェイムズ・ヴィルサック

Reading

とます・じぇいむず・ゔぃるさっく

Born

December 13, 1950 (age 75)

Origin

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Occupation

politician / lawyer / governor / jurist / mayor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Tiger

University

Hamilton College

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Vilsack
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A0%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q353826

Tags

• Pennsylvania
• politician
• lawyer
• governor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.