Artist: Robert Wadsworth Grafton (1876–1936)
Renick William Dunlap
DUNLAP, RENICK WILLIAM (1872–1945), inducted 1931
Born in Kingston, Ohio, Renick Dunlap graduated from Ohio State University in 1895. He served in the Ohio Senate (1903-1905) and then became the state’s Dairy and Food Commissioner. From 1914 to 1916, he was the Ohio Secretary of Agriculture. Dunlap held the position of Assistant Secretary in the US Department of Agriculture from 1925 to 1932. Upon his retirement, he returned to farming in Ohio. Dunlap’s first name came from his great-grandfather George Renick who, along with his brother Felix, were honored with early Saddle & Sirloin portraits as pioneering American cattlemen.
Source: Saddle & Sirloin Guidebook 2026, p. 85