Arthur Mastick Hyde (12 July 1877 – 17 October 1947) was the Republican Governor of Missouri from 10 January 1921 to 12 January 1925 (succeeding Frederick D. Gardner and preceding Sam Aaron Baker) and the United States Secretary of Agriculture from 6 March 1929 to 4 March 1933 (succeeding William Marion Jardine and preceding Henry A. Wallace).
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Arthur Mastick Hyde was born in Princeton, Missouri in 1877, the son of Ira B. Hyde and the brother of Laurance M. Hyde. He practiced law in Princeton and opened a Buick dealership in 1911, and he served as Mayor of Princeton from 1908 to 1912. In 1912, he was the Progressive nominee for Attorney General of Missouri, and he moved to Trenton in 1915. Hyde fundraised for the Republican Party before being elected Governor in 1920, serving from 1921 to 1925. He made advances in public education, roads, state parks, conservation, law enforcement, and equitable taxes and enabled women to hold government offices. After his service, he served as President Herbert Hoover's Secretary of Agriculture from 1929 to 1933, and he spoke for Republican candidates nationally into the 1940s and died in 1947.