University of Kentucky - Kentuckian Yearbook (Lexington, KY)

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A native of Pekin, Illinois, Dr. Thomas Poe Cooper was graduated from the School of Agriculture of Min- nesota in 1902 and obtained his B.S. degree from that institution in 1908. He acted as an assistant in farm management at the University of Minnesota for four years, after which he became an agent for the Bureau of Statistics in the United States Department of Agri- culture. In 1911, he became director of the Better Farming Association of North Dakota. It was in 1919 that he came to the University as Dean of the College of Agriculture and Director of the Experiment Sta- iion. 4 Other offices that Dr. Cooper has held are presi- dent of the board of directors of the North Dakota Farmers' Institutes and vice-chairman ofthe Livestock Sanitary Board of Kentucky. He holds an honorary degree of Doctor of Science from Princeton University. Dr. Cooper is now a 'member of the Kentucky State Board of Agriculture, the Kentucky State Park Com- mission, the Rotary Club of Lexington, the Conversa- tion Club of Louisville, and the Cosmos Club of Wash- ington, D. C. 1 Dr. Cooper became Acting President of the Univer- sity of Kentucky in july, 1940.

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