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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
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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