Renick William Dunlap

{{Short description|American politician (1872–1945)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

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| name = Renick William Dunlap

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| image = DUNLAP, RENICK W. HONORABLE LCCN2016861428.jpg

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1872|10|21}}

| birth_place = Kingston, Ohio, US

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1945|3|2|1872|10|21}}

| death_place = Chillicothe, Ohio, US

| alma_mater = Ohio State University

| occupation =

| party = Republican

| state_senate = Ohio

| term_start = 1903

| term_end = 1905

| office1 = 13th Secretary of Agriculture for Ohio

| term_start1 = 1914

| term_end1 = 1916

| office2 = Assistant Secretary of Agriculture

| term_start2 = April 1, 1925

| term_end2 = March 6, 1933

| president2 = Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt

| predecessor2 = Howard Mason Gore

| successor2 = Rexford Tugwell

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Renick William Dunlap (October 21, 1872 – March 2, 1945) was an American agriculturalist and politician.

Dunlap was born in 1872, in Kingston, Ohio. He graduated from Ohio State University in 1895. During his college years, Dunlap played for the Ohio State Buckeyes football team. He was part of the Alpha-Sigma chapter of Ohio State.{{cite book |last1=Boutwell |first1=Dunlap |title=The Kappa Sigma Book: A Manual Of Descriptive, Historical, and Statistical Facts Concerning The Kappa Sigma Fraternity |date=1907 |publisher=The Cumberland Press |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=7cxAAQAAMAAJ}}

Dunlap served in the Ohio Senate from 1903 to 1905. Dunlap became Ohio's Dairy and Food commissioner in 1906. He was a Republican candidate for the 1910 United States Senate election in Ohio, receiving one vote. Dunlap became Ohio's 13th Secretary of Agriculture in 1914, resigning in 1916 at Governor Frank B. Willis's request.{{citation needed |date=April 2025}} Dunlap served in the U.S. Department of Agriculture as an assistant secretary from April 1, 1925, to March 6, 1933.{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/centuryofservice00unit/mode/2up |title=Century of Service: The First 100 Years of the United States Department of Agriculture |last1=Baker |first1=Gladys L. |last2=Rasmussen |first2=Wayne D. |last3=Wiser |first3=Vivian |last4=Porter |first4=Jane M. |year=1963 |pages=452–453 |via=Archive.org |access-date=2025-04-26}}{{Open access}} During his time in the position, he was known for enforcing the Pure Food & Drug Act. Dunlap ran in the 1934 United States House of Representatives elections, again as a Republican, for Ohio's 11th congressional district. When he retired from politics, he became a farmer in Ohio.

Dunlap died on March 2, 1945, at age 72 in Chillicothe, Ohio.{{cite web |title=Renick W. Dunlap |url=https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Renick_W._Dunlap |website=ohiohistorycentral.org |publisher=Ohio History Central}}{{cite news |title=Renick W. Dunlap, Agriculturist 72; Assistant Secretary During Coolidge, Hoover Regimes Dies in Chillicothe, Ohio |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1945/03/03/archives/renick-w-dunlap-agriculturist-72-assistant-secretary-during.html |work=The New York Times |date=March 3, 1945 |page=11}}

His great great grandson, William Renick Reale, is expected to graduate Syracuse University in Spring 2025.