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A photograph of William Marion Jardine who served as Secretary of Agriculture during the presidency of Calvin Coolidge. As one of the first Kansans to gain a cabinet level position at the national level, he was instrumental in directing a farm program that had become economically depressed during the post World War I period. Prior to his selection to this cabinet level position he had served as Dean of the School of Agriculture at Kansas State Agricultural College (Kansas State University) and subsequently became president of that institution from 1918 - 1925. Following his tenure as Secretary of Agriculture, President Hoover appointed Jardine as Ambassador to Egypt in 1930. Upon his return to this country in 1933, Gov. Alf Landon appointed him a temporary Kansas State Treasurer in the wake of the Finney Bond Scandal. Jardine resigned from that position in April 1934 and became the president of the University of Wichita (now Wichita State University).
Date: Between 1925 and 1930
Item Number: 222146
Call Number: B Jardine, William M. *1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 222146
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Educators
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1920s
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Federal agencies and programs - Agencies - Agriculture, Department of
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - Notable Kansans - Jardine, William Marion
Thematic Time Period - The Twenties, 1920 - 1929
Type of Material - Photographs
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