Vance, James E., 1918-1987

James E. "Monk" Vance, longtime Texas agricultural writer and photographer, was born in Iola, Texas, in 1918 and was raised in Bryan, Texas. Vance graduated from Texas A & M University with a B.S. in agriculture in 1941, and served in the Air Force from 1941 to 1946.

He went to work for the Texas Agricultural Extension Service in 1946, but left in 1949 to become the farm and ranch editor at the Beaumont Enterprise. Vance returned to Texas A & M in 1954 as the assistant editor for the Agricultural Information Office. In 1959 he became the agricultural editor of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Vance returned once more to Texas A & M in 1978 as assistant editor for the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. He retired in 1982, but continued to write for the Bryan-College Station Press until his death on March 16, 1987.

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