L. J. Horton Papers, 1933-1993.

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L. J. Horton Papers, 1933-1993.

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Collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings and photographs amassed by L. J. Horton from 1933 to 1992. The bulk of the collection focuses on the activities of the Lower Tennessee Valley Association and the Tennessee Valley Authority in the states of Kentucky and Tennessee during the 1930s and 1940s. The papers contain his personal and professional correspondence from 1957 to 1985, most being from the 1960s and 1970s. Included in the collection are typescript articles, poems, awards, certificates and other memorabilia.

7.0 linear ft.

Murray State University, Waterfield Library

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Murray State University, Waterfield Library

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Tennessee Valley authority

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The TVA was created in 1933 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an act creating a federal agency to develop the Tennessee Valley region, then suffering from soil depletion, flood damage, and economic depression. Fifty years later, over 30 electricity-producing dams controlled the Tennessee and its tributaries, and a navigation channel had been created from Paducah, Ky., to Knoxville, Tenn. In addition TVA had carried out programs to prevent pollution, improve forest and farm management, ...

Lower Tennessee Valley Association

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Horton, Loren Joseph, 1904-1992

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Loren Joseph Horton was born at Albion, Illinois in 1904. He attended McKendree College at Lebanon, Illinois and graduated in 1927. After graduation he taught at various high schools in Illinois and worked as a reporter for the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch. In 1928, he was hired as a faculty member at Murray State Normal School as an instructor of journalism. From 1930 to 1947, he was a staff writer for the Associated Press, Louisville Courier-Journal and Paducah Sun-Democrat. He acquired a Master ...