Eugene Butler

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Eugene Butler (born June 11, 1894 in Starkville , Mississippi , † June 5, 1995 in Dallas , Texas ) was an American editor and publisher .

Life

Family and education

Eugene Butler, son of sterling in the Canadian province of Ontario coming first Professor of Zoology and Veterinarian Science at Mississippi A & M College and editor of Progressive Farmer Magazine Dr. Tait Butler (1862-1939) and his wife Dell Bell (1871-1964), graduated in 1913 with a Bachelor of Science degree at Mississippi A&M College, renamed Mississippi State University in 1958 . Butler then gained four years of practical experience as a farm laborer, at the same time he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture from Cornell University in 1915 , and a Master of Science degree in Agronomy from Iowa State University in 1917 .

Eugene Butler married Mary Britt Burns (1897–1981) on June 11, 1921. This connection came from the son Eugene Britt, who also worked in leading positions for the Progressive Farmer Company , and the daughter Mary Jean. He died in Dallas in June 1995 a few days before he would turn 101.

Professional background

Eugene Butler joined the Progressive Farmer Company after completing his professional training , namely as his father's assistant editor at the production facility of Progressive Farmer Magazine in Memphis , Tennessee . In 1922 Butler moved to Dallas, where he was appointed editor of the Progressive Farmer Texas Edition . In this role, Eugene Butler started campaigns for comprehensive rural health care, water and soil protection, improved legislation for those employed in agriculture and a statutory regulation on the labeling of fertilizers with the aim of being able to subject them to a chemical analysis.

In 1939 Butler's inclusion in the Progressive Farmer Executive Committee , in 1943 he was appointed Vice-President of the Board of Directors in 1953 for President , he was befördert.1959 the Company to editor-in-chief appointed in 1964 he was appointed Chairman of the Board elected . After the company was renamed Southern Progress Corporation in 1968, he held the positions of Editor-in-Chief and Chairman of the Board. In 1983 the company was sold to Time Inc. , where Eugene Butler remained until his retirement in 1985 as editor-in-chief .

The butler, who is particularly committed to the concerns of the rural population, was one of the founding members of the Texas Agricultural Workers Association , of which he was president between 1941 and 1942, and of the Dallas Agricultural Club , which he presided over in 1935. He held other memberships in Texas Forestry Association , the Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc. , the Phi Kappa Phi , the Alpha Zeta and the Sigma Delta Chi . The award-winning was inducted into the Texas Heritage Hall of Honor in 2000 .

literature

  • Who's who in the South and Southwest, a biographical dictionary of leading men and women of the Southern and Southwestern States, Larkin, Roosevelt & Larkin, Chicago, Ill., 1947, pp. 510, 856, 1080.
  • Who's who in Commerce and Industry. Volume IX. Marquis Who's Who, Inc., Chicago, Ill., 1955, p. 174.
  • Kathleen L. Endres: Trade, industrial, and professional periodicals of the United States, in: Historical guides to the world's periodicals and newspapers, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT., 1994, pp. 336, 339.
  • Who was who in America. : volume XII, 1996-1998 with world notables, Marquis Who's Who, New Providence, NJ., 1998, p. 37.
  • James C. Cobb: Away down South: a history of Southern identity, Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, 2007, p. 223.

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personal data
SURNAME Butler, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American editor and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Starkville , Mississippi
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 1995
Place of death Dallas , Texas