About Me
An eastern Ohio farm boy, Fred L. Dailey was appointed by Governor George Voinovich in 1991 to the post he held for 16 years---Director of the Ohio Department of Agriculture. He is the longest serving Ag Director in Ohio history. A combat veteran, Dailey served as a paratrooper with the 101st airborne division in Viet Nam. Dailey is a former rodeo cowboy and an amateur mountaineer. Dailey has scaled two of the seven continental summits: Mt. Elbrus (former USSR) and Mt. Kilimanjaro (Africa). Dailey and his wife, Rita, have been married for 37 years and reside on a 270 acre working farm in Knox County where they raise Angus cattle. They have three children and five grandchildren.