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A photograph of William Marion Jardine (fourth from the right) taking the oath of office for United States Secretary of Agriculture. He served in this office 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). Senator Arthur Capper is standing second from the right.
Creator: Henry Miller News Picture Service
Date: March 06, 1925
Item Number: 222182
Call Number: B Jardine, William M. *2
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 222182
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1920s - 1925
Education - Higher education - Institutions - Kansas State Agricultural College
Education - Higher education - Institutions - Kansas State University
Education - Higher education - Institutions - Wichita State University
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Federal agencies and programs - Agencies - Agriculture, Department of
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - Notable Kansans - Capper, Arthur, 1865-1951
People - Notable Kansans - Jardine, William Marion
Thematic Time Period - The Twenties, 1920 - 1929
Type of Material - Photographs
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