J. Franklin Thackrey papers, 1935-1981.

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J. Franklin Thackrey papers, 1935-1981.

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Chiefly correspondence, reports, and printed material relating to Thackrey's activities within the Dept. of Agriculture. Topics include consumer protection and information, hunger in America (food stamp and school lunch programs), meat and poultry inspection and grading, Thackrey's activities with the U.S. Resettlement Administration, and his trip to the Soviet Union as part of an Agriculture Dept. delegation in 1960. Other persons represented Ezra Taft Benson, Ralph Nader, and Orville Freeman.

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United States. Department of Agriculture

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The United States Department of Agriculture was established in 1862 by President Abraham Lincoln and was elevated to a Cabinet level organization by President Grover Cleveland in 1889. The Department of Agriculture assists farmers and producers of food as well as creating policies and programs related to food distribution and nutrition information. The United States Department of Agriculture controls a number of regional offices through out the continential United States and its territories....

Freeman, Orville L

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Nader, Ralph, 1934-

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Ralph Nader (b. Feb. 27, 1934, Winsted, CT) graduated from Princeton University (1955) and received an LL.B. from Harvard Law School (1958). After law school he served in the U.S. Army as a cook. Starting in 1959, Nader began practicing as a lawyer in Hartford, CT, while lecturing at the University of Hartford. He was also a writer for the Christian Science Monitor and The Nation. In 1964, he relocated to Washington, DC to serve as a consultant to Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel Patrick M...

Thackrey, J. Franklin (John Franklin), 1910-1990

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John Franklin Thackrey was born on December 16, 1910 in Kansas City, Kansas. At an early age, his family moved to Manhattan, Kansas, where Thackrey later enrolled as a student at Kansas State University (then known as Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science). Thackrey studied journalism at Kansas State, earning a bachelor¿s degree in 1933 and a master¿s degree in 1934. Following his studies, Thackrey worked for a year as a reporter with the Fort Worth [Texas] Press, and the Manha...

United States. Resettlement Administration

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United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics

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Benson, Ezra Taft

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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under Eisenhower, apostle and later president of the LDS church. From the description of Speeches, 1966-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122462756 Ezra Taft Benson was United States Secretary of Agriculture January 21, 1953 – January 20, 1961. From the guide to the AV 14 Ezra Taft Benson U. S. Secretary of Agriculture audio recordings collection 1954-1977 (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Church History Library) ...