others 



RuueU V. McKee 

 (16th Diat.) 



lohn T. Erona 

 (18th Dist) 



Milton W. Wanm 

 (19th Dist.) 



Don L. Clarke 

 (21*t Dist.) 



J. King Eaton 

 (22nd Diat) 



Qect Rve New Directors 



To ACQUAINT Farm Bureau mem- 

 bers with the five new directors elected 

 to the lAA board of directors at the 31st 

 annual meeting held in Chicago, the fol- 

 lowing short biographies are printed. 



RUSSELL V. McKEE, Varna, Mar- 

 shall county, was elected to represent the 

 l6th Congressional district, succeeding 

 Albert Hayes, Chillicothe. The I6th dis- 

 trict includes the following counties: 

 Peoria, Tazewell, Stark, Marshall, Put- 

 nam and Bureau. 



Mr. McKee is president of the Illinois 

 Farm Bureau Serum Association, an lAA 

 affiliate. He was elected to the board 

 of that cooperative in 1934 and named 

 president in 1937. He is also president 

 of the Marshall-Putnam Farm Bureau 

 and the Marshall-Putnarn Oil Company. 

 He was elected to the board of his local 

 Farm Bureau in 1929 and named presi- 

 dent in 1938. He has served continuous- 

 ly on his Farm Bureau board since 1929, 

 with the exception of one year. He has 

 also served as president of the Marshall- 

 Putnam Locker Service. Mr. McKee has 

 two childreA: Mrs. Verna Wasson, Cin- 

 cinnati, and Bert, who operates the fam- 

 ily farm. Mr. McKee owns 172 acres 

 and is renting another 80. He has a 

 herd of Purebred Jerseys and also raises 

 a large number of hogs. Mr. McKee is 

 active in the Christian Church of Wash- 

 burn. 



JOHN T. EVANS, Hoopeston, Ver- 

 milion county, was elected to represent 

 the 18th Congressional district, succeed- 

 ing W. A. Dennis, Edgar, Piatt county. 

 The 18th district includes the following 

 counties: Vermilion, Iroquois, Kankakee, 

 Edgar, Clark and Cumberland. 



Mr. Evans has served as president of 

 the Vermilion County Farm Bureau for 

 eight years and was elected to his Farm 

 Bureau board in 1933. He joined the 

 Vermilion Farm Bureau shortly after it 

 was organized. He farms a 400-acre 

 grain and livestock farm, and specializes 



in hogs, sheep, and beef cattle, having 

 his own breeding herds. Mr. Evans is 

 single and the farm on which he lives 

 has been in the Evans family since 1867. 

 Living on the farm with him is Gladys 

 M. Evans, a cousin, co-owner of the 

 farm, and a brother, Richard K. Evans. 

 Mr. Evans was born in Reading, Pa., and 

 came to Illinois with his uncle, Thomas 

 Evans, when he was 11 years old. Mr. 

 Evans is secretary of the Red Top rural 

 school district, and active in the Hoopes- 

 ton Presbyterian Church. He served as 

 a township AAA committeeman in the 

 early days of its operation. 



MILTON W. WARREN, 47, Mms 

 field, Piatt county, was elected to repre- 

 sent the 19th Congressional district, suc- 

 ceeding Charles B. Shuman, Sullivan, 

 Moultrie county. This district includes 

 the following counties: Champaign, 

 Piatt, DeWitt, Macon, Shelby, Moultrie, 

 Coles and, Douglas. 



Mr. Warren has served eight years as 

 director of the Piatt County Farm Bu- 

 reau and 12 years as its president. He 

 operates a 440-acre grain and livestock 

 farm. He was born Oct. 5, 1897 in 

 Mansfield and was graduated from the 

 University of Illinois College of Agri- 

 culture in 1921. Among hfc cooperative 

 activities are services as director of the 

 Champaign Production Credit Associa- 

 tion from 1935 to 1939, and in past 

 years as a township AAA committeeman. 

 He has also served as a member of the 

 Mansfield Co-op Locker board of direc- 

 tors. In his community, he is president 

 of the Mansfield (Community High 

 School board, and is a member of the 

 Mansfield Lions Club. 



DAN L. CLARKE, 57, New Berlin. 

 Sangamon county, was elected to serve 

 as representative of the 21st Congres- 

 sional district, succeeding Floyd E. Mor- 

 ris, Buffalo, Sangamon county. This dis- 

 trict includes the following counties: 

 Sangamon, Christian, Montgomery and 

 Macoupin. 



Mr. Clarke, who operates a 450-acrc 

 grain and livestock farm, is president of 

 the Sangamon County Farm Bureau. 



Clarke has served as president of the 

 Sangamon County Farm Bureau for the 

 past four years and previously served as 

 vice-president for two years. He has 

 also been a member of the Farm Bureau 

 board as a director from Cartwright 

 Township. 



Born June 9, 1888, in Pleasant Plains, 

 on the farm which he operates today and 

 on which his grandfather settled in 1830. 

 Mr. Clarke attended Whipple Academ)' 

 in Jacksonville and later the Universitj- 

 of Illinois for three years from 1908 to 

 1911. After graduation he returned to 

 the home farm and has operated it since 

 that time, adding acreage until he noyi' 

 has 450 acres. It is a testimony to his 

 belief in good soil practices that the land 

 which his grandfather and father farmed 

 has held up in production. 



Mr. Clarke raises large numbers of 

 hogs and certified soybeans and oats, in 

 addition to his regular grain operations. 

 He is a progressive farmer and has built 

 up his land with lime and phospliate. 

 clovers, manure and crop rotation. 



In civic and community affairs, Mr. 

 Clarke serves on the official board of the 

 Methodist Church at Ashland, and has 

 been active in Red Cross, Community and 

 War Fund drives and Victory Bond cam- 

 paigns. 



Mrs. Clarke is the former Coral Furr. 

 Her brother, Paul Furr, who has been 

 vocational agricultural teacher at DeKalb 

 High School for many years, is well 

 known to farmers throughout northern 

 Illinois. 



J. KING EATON, Edwardsville, 

 Madison county, was elected to serve as 

 representative from the 22nd Congres- 

 sional district, succeeding Alvin O. Eck- 

 ert, Belleville, St. Clair county. This 

 district includes the following counties: 

 Madison, St. Clair, Monroe, Washing- 

 ton and Bond. 



Mr. Eaton is a former president of 

 the Sanitary Milk Producers and has 

 served its board since its organization in 



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