Reminiscences of James G. Patton, 1978.

Biographical Note

Agriculturist

Scope and Contents

Childhood in Colorado; life insurance salesman 1920s; creation of farmers union insurance program, 1932-34; executive secretary and later president of Colorado Farmers Union, 1934-1941; president, National Farmers Union, 1940-1966: producer and consumer cooperatives, membership struggles, relations with other farmers unions and farm organizations, national politics, international affairs, relationships with labor unions; impressions of United States presidents from Franklin Roosevelt to Jimmy Carter; reminiscences of Charles Brannan, Henry Wallace, Ed Costigan, Josephine Roach and others

Subjects

• Agricultural cooperative credit associations.
• Agriculture--Economic aspects.
• Agriculture--United States.
• Agriculturists--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Livermore, Charles, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• National Farmers' Union (U.S.)
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Patton, James G. (James George), 1902-1985--Interviews.
• United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945.
• United States--Economic conditions--1945-
• United States--Politics and government--1919-1933.
• United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.