Earl Butz

Earl Lauer Butz (* July 3, 1909 in Albion, Noble County, Indiana, † February 2nd 2008 in Washington DC ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ) and Minister of Agriculture of the United States under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford

Life

Butz was born in 1909 as the son of a farmer. He attended Wawaka High School in Indiana and studied at Purdue University in Lafayette Agriculture and was there in 1932 a bachelor's exam. Since 1933 he was a farmer working in Noble County and worked from 1934 to 1935 as a research assistant at Purdue University. The following year he was engaged in research and economics work. He graduated during the 1936 post-graduate studies at the University of Chicago. These he -actuated at the Federal Land Bank in Louisville, Kentucky, from which he but a year later returned to Purdue University. Finally, where he received his doctorate in 1937 and then worked until 1939 as a lecturer. He embarked on a career professor and in 1946 employed as a Professor of Agricultural Sciences, which he remained until 1965. He was also Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture of the University.

Butz was also a lecturer at many other universities in the United States, including the University of Wisconsin and Rutgers University. He was also a director of many American companies, such as Standard Life Insurance Company of Indiana, the JI Case Company in Racine, Wisconsin and the Ralston Purina Co. in St. Louis. He was married in 1937 to Mary Emma Powell, with whom he had two sons.

Policy

Politically Butz first worked from 1954 to 1957, when he was deputy under Dwight D. Eisenhower Agriculture Minister. He was then re- Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture at Purdue University. After his retirement, he focused on his directorship until he was appointed by Richard Nixon to the new American Agriculture Ministers in November 1971. His predecessor, Clifford M. Hardin was not prepared for tactical reasons, as Butz came from the agrarian Midwest and the hapless Hardin solving the problems of agriculture was no longer capable of. Butz ' confirmation as the new Minister in the Senate fell just out: Only 51 senators voted for it, 46 against it.

Butz was sent in April 1972 to the Soviet Union to negotiate the sale of American surplus production. He stayed even after Nixon's re-election in November 1972 in his cabinet and also practiced after Nixon resigned in 1974 from the minister under Gerald Ford. Butz resigned on October 4, 1976, after he had made a racist joke about Coloured and this was made ​​even though in private, published in the press. In order not to damage Ford in the election campaign, he resigned.

Publications

• "Seasonal Variation of Food Farm Prices" (1942 )
• " Veal Calf Prices in Indiana " (1944 )
• "Price Fixings for Food Stuffs " (1952)
• "Seasonal Price Variations and Economy of feeds in Indiana " (1943 ), along with Eugene G. Byer