Clifford M. Hardin was born in 1915 and died in 2010 at the age of 94. Throughout his almost century-long life, Hardin witnessed huge changes. The first telephone conversation ever happened the year he was born and before he passed, the first iPhone was released. He lived through both World Wars, the Korean War, Vietnam War, Persian Gulf War, as well as the invasions of both Afghanistan and Iraq. Hardin was alive during the time when African-Americans did not have equal rights and before he died he saw America elect its first African-American president. He witnessed America at some of its lowest and highest points. Hardin attended Purdue University where he earned his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in Agricultural Economics by 1941. …show more content…
Three years later, he began teaching Agricultural Economics at Michigan State University (Bailey Jr., 1969). In 1947, two years after the end of World War 2, Hardin toured Western Europe on behalf of MSU to investigate the Marshall Plan. A year later, President Truman named Hardin to a group to study development in South Africa. Hardin then became the Dean of Agriculture of MSU in 1953 (Marquis, 1997). In April of the next year, he was offered the chancellorship at the University of Lincoln-Nebraska; he declined. However, the interview committee eventually convinced Hardin to take the job; and in May 1954 at the age of 38, he became the youngest person in the country to hold a chancellorship (Knoll, 1995). The University of Nebraska-Lincoln underwent many changes during the fifteen years that Hardin was Chancellor.
He was able to increase UNL's budget. This increase caused an increase in enrollment, demand for professors, and allowed for an increase in professors' salaries and a new, funded faculty retirement plan (Hardin, Clifford M., n.d.). He also expanded the East Campus, formerly known as the Farm Campus, and merged UNL with the University of Omaha because UNO was in severe financial trouble. By merging the two universities under a single management, UNO was saved. This merge also increased the faculty morale because it showed how UNL was able and willing to increase the quality of life in Nebraska (Knoll, …show more content…
1995). While Hardin was still Chancellor of UNL, he served on a committee set up by President Kennedy in 1962 to review the US Foreign Aid program. The following year, he became a member of the President's Committee to Strengthen the Security of the Free World. Then following Kennedy's assassination, Hardin worked for President Johnson in the policy-making section of the National Science Foundation. Hardin finally resigned as Chancellor in 1969 after being appointed to Nixon's cabinet as the Secretary of Agriculture in late 1968 (Mortiz, 1969). His first request to Nixon as Secretary of Agriculture was asking Nixon to continue the tradition of fifty percent advance payments to feed-grain growers who enroll in the government's acreage-retirement program. Other notable contributions include establishing the Food and Nutrition Service Program and the Farm Bill (Stahura, 1999). During his time on the cabinet, he also edited the book Overcoming World Hunger (Hardin, 1969). Following his work on the President's cabinet, Hardin became chairman and vice president for research for Ralston-Purina of Canada from 1971-1980.
He enjoyed working there as it was dedicated to providing food and food systems all around the world. This touched on one of his personal goals of fighting world hunger (Nestle, 2002). After his retirement from Ralston-Purina, he became part of the Board of Directors of Stifel, Nicolaus, and Company in St. Louis, Missouri (Marquis, 1997). He was later awarded the National Flame of Truth Award in 1981 for his career in both government and academics and for his determination to fight world hunger (Fedderson, 2010,). During Reagan's presidency, Hardin became the Center's Director and Adjunct Professor of Management in the Graduate School of Business at Washington University until he retired in 1985 (Ratcliff,
1989).
Garrett Augustus Morgan was born on March 4, 1877 in Paris, Kentucky, the seventh of eleven children to Sydney and Elizabeth Morgan. His parents had previously been slaves, freed by the Emancipation Proclamation. At the early age of 14, Morgan decided to travel north to Ohio in the hopes of receiving better education opportunities. During those times, there were better opportunities for blacks in the northern part of the country. Still, Morgan’s formal education never surpassed elementary school. He moved to Cincinnati and then to Cleveland, working as a handyman in order to make ends meet. In Cleveland, he learned the inner workings of the sewing machine and in opened his own sewing machine store in 1907, where he both sold new machines and repaired old ones. In 1908 Morgan married Mary Anne Hassek with whom he later had three sons.
Clarence Earl Gideon was born on August 30, 1910 in the state of Hannibal, Missouri. His father’s name was Charles Gideon and his mother’s was Virginia Gideon. In 1913 Charles Gideon died just a few days after the third birthday of Clarence. Virginia remarried a man named Marion Frances Anderson when he was five. After this second marriage Clarence became siblings with Roy E Ogden, his half-sister and a half-brother named Russell Lee Anderson. Clarence thought his step-father was a really good man, despite being uneducated. This was, of course, the case until Clarence reached the eighth grade of school in Hannibal. His...
The Carroll family then packed up and moved to Lexington Kentucky, where he worked at the Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation office. In 1954, he earned a bachelor’s of arts in political science degree from the University of Kentucky. He then would attend the University of Kentucky’s school of law where he earned his law degree in 1956. For the next five years he practice law as a military lawyer at Carswell Air Force Base in Texas, as well as serving with the Paducah law firm of Reed, Scent, Reed, and Walton before beginning his political career in 1961.
...s, his son Thomas, General Josiah T. Walls. He then spent time in the Sentinel office (newspaper) learning about trades and printing, and the publisher became his friend. His first death in his family occurred, and it was mother at the age of thirty-six. His mother continuously had anxieties about worrying about people coming to kill her family, but the cause of her death is still unknown. According to the book, ultimately, Tim was very distraught about his mother’s death. His father eventually dies in 1897, but he accomplished several things before his death: became “city marshal, county commisioner of Duval County, and clerk of the city market.”
“To the world you may be just another person, but to one person you may just be the world (Snyder, ThinkExist.com). In Pat Frank’s book, Alas Babylon, Randy Bragg is no one of importance. He is failed politician that lives off his family’s land in a small town, Fort Repose, in Florida. But For this small town lawyer everything was about to change. The United States had been on edge of Nuclear Warfare with Russia for years. Frank writes on about how one man, Randy Bragg, redeems himself from a failed politician to a somewhat of a town hero (Frank).
Later in the essay, Hardin writes about the differences in the population growth between rich and poor nations. Poor nations multiply much more quickly than richer nations. The essay then goes on to explain what the consequences would be of setting of a national food bank. It explains that only the rich nations would be able to contribute to the food bank and the poor nations would only draw. This would only add to the problem of the poor nations as they would have no desire to save of food for themselves since they know they will be taken care of anyways. Giving poor nations food would be bad a...
In his extraordinary book, Lee the Last Years, Charles Flood gives a rare blend of history and emotion. After Lee’s surrender at Appomattox courthouse, he only lived a total of five years before his death. Some people might think that he was just a general, but the best years of his life were after the war because he changed the minds of the south and he changed education. Even though Robert E. Lee is best remembered for his military campaigns, this is a part of history not told in many history books because he did more than any other American to heal the wounds of the south and he served as a president for Washington College, which was later renamed after his death to be Washington and Lee University.
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Clarence Earl Gideon was born in Missouri on August 30th 1910. He was a man with an 8th grade education, who ran away from home. When he was sixteen he had started to do minor crimes and started to get in trouble with the law. “Gideon spent a year in a reformat...
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Randolph B. Campbell is currently a history professor at the University of North Texas. In the years of 1993-1994 Campbell was the president of the Texas State Historical Association, he was a man fascinated by the history of how the United States came to be where it is today. Campbell graduated with his doctorate’s early 19th century American History from the University of Virginia which is the state he was also born in. Campbell has also written and published several other books some of which including Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star State, and Grass Roots Reconstruction in Texas, showing that Campbell was interested mostly in Texas history after he had left Virginia to find a state with a lot of history behind it.
Lewis A. Armistead was born on February 18th, 1817 in New Bern, North Carolina. He was brought up in a military family. Their military Despite this he never managed to graduate West Point due to being dismissed twice. Once for hitting a future ally, Jubal Early, over the head with a plate, the other time was due to extensive sickness. But in spite of this he managed to get a position in the army under his father due to his families influential positions in the army. (Confederate General Lewis Armistead is Born) He later suffered from a disease that destroyed skin, lost his farm in a fire, and lost his wife and a four-year old daughter, then remarried. But soon he lost his second wife and another daughter who was only an infant. During the Mexican War though, he was distinguished for abilities under fire. In this war he became close to longtime friend Captain Winfield Scott Hancock. When he decided to join the Confederacy and Hancock joined the Union, The two still attempted to stay friends. Their last meeting before the war was at Hancock’s house where they sadly said goodbye to so...
Roger Sherman was born on 19, 1721 in Newton Massachusetts. He was the second child to be born to his Dad William Sherman and his mother Mehetabel Sherman. Roger’s father supported the family by farming and the work of shoemaking. Roger’s mother was known to have strong moral values, and instill those values into her children. At the age of three, his father had moved the family to Soughton which used to be a frontier town, and was located seventeen miles South of Boston. His father worked as Cordwainer and a farmer and taught Roger about his trade. Roger had a very limited education, and only had his dad’s library. However, Roger craved to read and learn to during his free time to help benefit his education and knowledge. But Roger did
“A lawyer is either a social engineer, or a parasite on society.” (Eyes on the Prize, 1935) Charles Houston was an incredible lawyer, and taught a generation of black lawyers. Despite not being well known, Charles Houston was key in the eradication of segregation in schools. Listen as I share his story.
Whitney continued on with his development of the factory until his death on January 8, 1825. Unfortunately, Whitney has been all but forgotten. He is mostly remembered as "the cotton man," and nothing else. However, without the ingenuity and dedication of this individual, who knows where the world might be today.