Sid McMath

Sid McMath

male, deceased (2003)
American military personnel of World War II, Rural Electrification, American military, vietnam war, attorney, Vietnam War veteran…electrification
Sidney Sanders McMath (June 14, 1912 - October 4, 2003) was a decorated U.S. Marine, renowned attorney and progressive Democratic reform Governor...
Alexander Cassatt

Alexander Cassatt

male, deceased (1906)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni, American racehorse owners and breeder, racehorse breeder, American, altoona, electrification
Alexander J. Cassatt (December 8 1839 - December 28 1906) was the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad from June 9, 1899 to December 28, 1906....
Liberty Hyde Bailey

Liberty Hyde Bailey

male, deceased (1954)
From Ithaca, New York, 4-H, Cornell University faculty, Young Folks Library, Garden writer, pteridologist…electrification
Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954) was an American horticulturist, botanist and cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science. Born in...
Stuart Garson

Stuart Garson

male, deceased (1977)
Manitoba lawyer, From St. Catharines, university of manitoba, Member of the United Church of Canada, University of Manitoba alumni, Liberal Party of Canada MP…electrification
Stuart Sinclair Garson, PC, CC (December 1, 1898 - May 5, 1977) was a Canadian politician and lawyer. He served as Premier of Manitoba from 1943 to...
John E. Rankin

John E. Rankin

male, deceased (1960)
American military, New Deal, African American, anti-Semitic, World War I, from Mississippi…rural electrification administration
John Elliott Rankin (March 29, 1882 - November 26, 1960) was a congressman from the U.S. State of Mississippi. Rankin was born near Bolanda in...
Clair Armstrong Callan

Clair Armstrong Callan

male, deceased (2005)
Nebraska Democrat, odd fellow, Freemason, Nebraska politician, democratic, american legion…rural electrification administration
Clair Armstrong Callan was a Nebraska Democratic politician. He was born in Odell, Nebraska and graduated from Peru State College. He served as an...
Claude R. Wickard

Claude R. Wickard

male, deceased (1967)
secretary of agriculture, purdue university, franklin delano roosevelt, senate, rural electrification administration, Claude Raymond Wickard
Claude Raymond Wickard (1893-1967), born in Indiana, Secretary of Agriculture under President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1940 to 1945. Graduated...

Orland Steen Loomis

male, deceased (1942)
Attorney General of Wisconsin, Attorneys General of Wisconsin, Wisconsin State Senator, lieutenant governor, attorney general, Governor of Wisconsin…rural electrification administration
Orland Steen Loomis (November 2, 1893 - December 7, 1942) was an American lawyer and governor-elect of Wisconsin. He was born in Mauston, Wisconsin...

Florence Cohen

female, 92 years old
from Philadelphia, Feminist, George Washington University alumni, public sector, rural electrification administration, Spanish Flu
Florence Cohen (born July 28, 1917), a pioneer public sector union leader with the Rural Electrification Administration from 1936 to 1943 and a...
Lester Beall

Lester Beall

male, deceased (1969)
University of Chicago, graphic design, Time Magazine, art institute of chicago, chicago tribune, Abbott Laboratories…rural electrification administration
Lester Beall was a twentieth-century American graphic designer notable as a leading proponent of modernist graphic design in the United States....