| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Frank A. Barrett |
Politician |
10-Nov-1892 |
20-May-1962 |
Governor and Senator from Wyoming |
| Robert Bergland |
Politician |
22-Jul-1928 |
|
US Secretary of Agriculture, 1977-81 |
| Catherine Bertini |
Administrator |
31-Mar-1950 |
|
World Food Programme, 1992-2002 |
| Clarence Birdseye |
Scientist |
9-Dec-1886 |
7-Oct-1956 |
Frozen and dried food, wrapped in cellophane |
| J. P. Bolduc |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
CEO of W. R. Grace, 1993-95 |
| Eric M. Bost |
Diplomat |
c. 1952 |
|
US Ambassador to South Africa |
| James E. Bostic, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
EVP at Georgia Pacific, 2001-05 |
| Charles F. Brannan |
Politician |
23-Aug-1903 |
2-Jul-1992 |
US Secretary of Agriculture, 1948-53 |
| Lester R. Brown |
Activist |
28-Mar-1934 |
|
Earth Policy Institute |
| Earl Butz |
Government |
3-Jul-1909 |
2-Feb-2008 |
Ford's disgraced Secretary of Agriculture |
| Garrey Carruthers |
Politician |
29-Aug-1939 |
|
Governor of New Mexico, 1987-91 |
| George Washington Carver |
Botanist |
c. 1860 |
5-Jan-1943 |
Crop rotation and peanut butter |
| Frederick G. Cottrell |
Inventor |
10-Jan-1877 |
16-Nov-1948 |
Smokestack filters to fight pollution |
| Richard T. Crowder |
Business |
3-Aug-1939 |
|
Chief Agriculture Negotiator, USTR, 2006-07 |
| Lincoln Davis |
Politician |
13-Sep-1943 |
|
Congressman from Tennessee, 2003-11 |
| W. Edwards Deming |
Mathematician |
14-Oct-1900 |
20-Dec-1993 |
Quality Control guru |
| David G. Fairchild |
Botanist |
7-Apr-1869 |
6-Aug-1954 |
Brought exotic plants to America |
| Suzanne K. Hale |
Diplomat |
21-Apr-1948 |
|
US Ambassador to Micronesia |
| George V. Hansen |
Politician |
14-Sep-1930 |
14-Aug-2014 |
Congressman from Idaho |
| Ruth R. Harkin |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
United Technologies VP, 1997-2005 |
| Patricia M. Haslach |
Diplomat |
c. 1956 |
|
US Senior Official for APEC |
| Norman G. Heatley |
Scientist |
10-Jan-1911 |
5-Jan-2004 |
Isolated penicillin |
| Melville J. Herskovits |
Anthropologist |
10-Sep-1895 |
25-Feb-1963 |
The Myth of the Negro Past |
| Robert W. Holley |
Scientist |
28-Jan-1922 |
11-Feb-1993 |
RNA's role in protein synthesis |
| Clyde C. Holloway |
Politician |
28-Nov-1943 |
|
Congressman from Louisiana, 1987-93 |
| Larry J. Hopkins |
Politician |
25-Oct-1933 |
|
Congressman from Kentucky, 1979-93 |
| Franklyn G. Jenifer |
Educator |
26-Mar-1939 |
|
President of UT-Dallas, 1994-2003 |
| John A. Knebel |
Politician |
4-Oct-1936 |
|
US Secretary of Agriculture, 1976-77 |
| Richard E. Lyng |
Business |
29-Jun-1918 |
1-Feb-2003 |
US Secretary of Agriculture, 1986-89 |
| Daniel Marcus |
Attorney |
5-Jan-1941 |
|
Wilmer Cutler & Pickering |
| Patrick J. Martin |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
Storage Technology Corporation |
| Elsa A. Murano |
Educator |
14-Aug-1959 |
|
President of Texas A&M University, 2008-09 |
| Keith Foote Nyborg |
Business |
4-Mar-1930 |
|
US Ambassador to Finland, 1981-86 |
| Mollie Orshansky |
Economist |
9-Jan-1915 |
18-Dec-2006 |
Orshansky Index |
| Chip Pickering |
Politician |
10-Aug-1963 |
|
Congressman from Mississippi, 1997-2009 |
| Arthur F. Raper |
Sociologist |
8-Nov-1899 |
10-Aug-1979 |
The Tragedy of Lynching |
| Alan Charles Raul |
Government |
9-Sep-1954 |
|
Sidley & Austin |
| Cleon Skousen |
Activist |
20-Jan-1913 |
9-Jan-2006 |
The Naked Communist |
| Jo Ann R. Smith |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
Former Chair, National Cattlemen's Beef Assn. |
| Nick Smith |
Politician |
5-Nov-1934 |
|
Congressman from Michigan, 1993-2005 |
| Theobald Smith |
Scientist |
31-Jul-1859 |
10-Dec-1934 |
Infectious and parasitic diseases |
| Virginia Smith |
Politician |
30-Jun-1911 |
23-Jan-2006 |
Congresswoman from Nebraska, 1975-91 |
| Nancy H. Steorts |
Government |
28-Nov-1936 |
|
CPSC Chairwoman, 1981-85 |
| Wes Watkins |
Politician |
15-Dec-1938 |
|
Congressman from Oklahoma |
| William H. Welch |
Scientist |
8-Apr-1850 |
30-Apr-1934 |
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine |
| Jerry Weller |
Politician |
7-Jul-1957 |
|
Congressman from Illinois, 1995-2009 |
| Dennis E. Whitfield |
Activist |
c. 1950 |
|
American Conservative Union |
| Claude R. Wickard |
Government |
28-Feb-1893 |
29-Apr-1967 |
US Secretary of Agriculture, 1940-45 |
| Sewall Wright |
Biologist |
21-Dec-1889 |
3-Mar-1988 |
Mathematics of evolution |
