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  • Title: William John Green papers
    Date (inclusive): 1911-1982
    Collection Number: 82090
    Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
    Language of Material: English
    Physical Description: 31 manuscript boxes (12.4 Linear Feet)
    Abstract: Correspondence, speeches, reports, memoranda, minutes, newsletters, and printed matter relating to United States Farm Security Administration aid to tenant farmers, and to agricultural assistance to Guam, China, Peru, Burma, Bolivia, and Taiwan.
    Creator: Green, William John, 1892-
    Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

    Access

    The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

    Use

    For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Acquisition Information

    Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1982.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], William John Green papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Biographical Note

    1892 August 19 Born, Ellsworth, Kansas
    1916 Bachelor of Science in Agronomy, Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College (A & M College)
    1916 Appointed assistant in movable schools in the Oklahoma A & M College and U.S. Department of Agricultural Extension Service
    1917 Assistant Boys Club agent in the Oklahoma Extension Service
    1919 Superintendent of extension, Guam Agricultural Experiment Station, U.S. Department of Agriculture
    1921 Extension agronomist in the Oklahoma A & M College
    1922 Teacher of vocational agriculture in the Wakita High School, Wakita, Kansas
    1926 County farm agent, Payne County, Oklahoma
    1928 District farm agent, southeast quarter of Oklahoma
    1931 M.S. agricultural economics, Oklahoma State University
    1934 Senior administrative officer, Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Washington D.C.
    1936 Assistant regional director of the Resettlement Administration and Farm Security Administration in Oklahoma and Texas
    1944 Chief of the Field Staff and Coordination Section of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA)
    1945 Chief of the Agricultural Rehabilitation Division of the China Office of UNRRA
    1948 Assistant Director of the U.S. Food Supply Mission to Peru
    1950 Assistant economic commissioner and chief of the Agricultural Division of the U.S. Special Technical and Economic Mission to Burma
    1953 Chief of the Agricultural and Natural Resources Field Party in Bolivia
    1957-1962 Chief of the Agricultural Extension Division of the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction in Taiwan

    Scope and Content of Collection

    The collection documents the activities of noted American agronomist and chief administrative officer of the U.S. Department of Agriculture William John Green. The papers consist of correspondence, speeches, reports, memoranda, minutes, newsletters, and printed matter relating to U.S. Farm Security Administration aid to tenant farmers, and to agricultural assistance to Guam, China, Peru, Burma, Bolivia, and Taiwan.
    The papers include 35 years of "Hunger Fighters," published at irregular intervals in various parts of the world to keep former members of the Agricultural Rehabilitation Division of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) in touch with each other. In each series there are also "Bill's Letters," memoirs written as diaries about Green's experience and career in agriculture.

    Related Materials

    U.S. Food Administration records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
    O. J. (Oliver Julian) Todd papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
    United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. China Office records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
    Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction in China (United States and China) miscellaneous records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
    J. Franklin Ray papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Agriculture -- China
    Agriculture -- United States
    Agriculture -- Taiwan
    Agricultural assistance, American
    Agriculture -- Bolivia
    Agriculture -- Burma
    Agriculture -- Guam
    Agriculture -- Peru
    United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
    United States. Farm Security Administration