Reminiscences of Claude Raymond Wickard : oral history, 1953.

Biographical Note

Agriculturist, government executive.

Scope and Contents

Early life in Indiana; education; farming; observation of the farm revolt and the McNary-Haugen movement in the 1920s; election to the Indiana Senate, 1932; Corn and Hogs Section of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration; Agricultural Conservation Program; the Depression and the Department of Agriculture; experience as Under Secretary, 1940, and Secretary, 1940-45, of Agriculture; World War II; Lend-Lease; inter-American conferences on agriculture; work with the Rural Electrification Administration.

Subjects

• Agriculture--United States.
• Agriculturists--Interviews.
• Albertson, Dean, 1920-1989, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Depressions--1929--United States.
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Lend-lease operations (1941-1945)
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories.
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States. Agricultural Adjustment Administration.
• United States. Department of Agriculture.
• United States. Rural Electrification Administration.
• Wickard, Claude R. (Claude Raymond), 1893-1967.
• World War, 1939-1945.

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