Inventory of the Ide Peebles Trotter Papers 1922-1964

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Inventory of the Ide Peebles Trotter Papers 1922-1964

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Ide Peebles Trotter was born in Brownsville, Tenn. on 12 December 1895, the son of Isham Patten and Susie Eager Trotter. Most of his working career was devoted to education, mainly in Texas, though he also spent several years in Missouri.Trotter received a B.A. from Mississippi College in 1915, and a B.S. (1918) and M.S. (1921) from Mississippi A & M. In 1933 the University of Wisconsin awarded him a Ph.D. in Agriculture. During 1923-1936, Trotter served as the Extension Agronomist at the Missouri College of Agriculture. In 1936, Trotter came to Texas A & M University, then called the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, serving until 1944 as Head of the Department of Agronomy, and from 1944 until 1949, as Director of the Agricultural Extension Service. Between 1949 and 1956, Trotter was Dean of the Graduate School and thereafter served as Associate Dean until his retirement in 1960. Upon retiring from Texas A & M University, Trotter accepted a position on the faculty of the University of Missouri. He served on the U.S. AID team for India until 1964, and, in 1948, Trotter also served as an International Commodity Specialist in cotton, surveying cotton activities in Japan, China, India, Pakistan, and Greece for the office of Foreign Agricultural Relations.Throughout his career, Trotter was committed to religious and civic involvement, demonstrated by numerous early morning radio talks on various agricultural topics as well as New Years and Thanksgiving greetings. He was largely responsible for the planning for and organization of the first Rural Church Conference in College Station in 1946. Trotter and his wife, Lena Ann Breeze Trotter, live in Bryan, Texas. They have two sons, Ide Peebles Trotter, Jr., and Benjamin Breeze Trotter, both of whom are graduates of Texas A & M University. The Ide Peebles Trotter Papers (1922-1969) consist of correspondence, telegrams, notes, reports, speeches, newspaper clippings, and publications which span most of Trotter's career in Agricultural Education. Trotter's move from Missouri to Texas is well documented in letters, bills, and telegrams, but his transfer to Agricultural Extension and then to the Graduate School at Texas A & M University in College Station, Tex. are poorly covered. The only documentation on Trotter's two periods of foreign service is in the reports he wrote on his cotton surveys in 1948. Some special activities such as his service on the Postwar Planning Committee and Subcommittees thereof, and his participation in Rural Church Conferences are fairly well documented.

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