E. Travis York Jr. (1922 to 2011) was an American agronomist, professor, university administrator and agricultural extension administrator who also served as a presidential adviser. Born and raised in Valley Head, Alabama, he took a BS in agricultural science in 1942 and an MS in agronomy and soils in 1946 at Alabama Polytechnic Institute, now Auburn University, then a doctorate at Cornell University, where he studied under the soil scientist Richard Bradfield. He was associate professor and chairman of agronomy at North Carolina State University and a regional director for the Potash Institute, and in 1959 became director of the Alabama Cooperative Extension Service, then its youngest director, and in 1961 administrator of the federal Extension Service, again the youngest ever. At the University of Florida from 1963 he merged the agricultural college, extension service and experiment station into the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences in 1964, established the Center for Tropical Agriculture and was interim president in 1973. He was chancellor of the State University System of Florida from 1975 to 1980 and then turned to fighting world hunger.
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E. Travis York Jr. (July 4, 1922 – April 15, 2011) was an American agronomist, professor, university administrator, agricultural extension administrator, and U.S. presidential adviser.
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E. Travis York Jr. (July 4, 1922, April 15, 2011) was an American agronomist, professor, university administrator, agricultural extension administrator, and U.S. presidential adviser.
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E. Travis York Jr. (July 4, 1922, April 15, 2011) was an American agronomist, professor, university administrator, agricultural extension administrator, and U.S. presidential adviser.
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E. Travis York Jr. (July 4, 1922, April 15, 2011) was an American agronomist, professor, university administrator, agricultural extension administrator, and U.S. presidential adviser.
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He merged the College of Agricultural Life Sciences, the Florida Cooperative Extension Service, and the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station under the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) in 1964.
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E. Travis York Jr. (July 4, 1922, April 15, 2011) was an American agronomist, professor, university administrator, agricultural extension administrator, and U.S. presidential adviser.
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E. Travis York Jr. (July 4, 1922, April 15, 2011) was an American agronomist, professor, university administrator, agricultural extension administrator, and U.S. presidential adviser.
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E. Travis York Jr. (July 4, 1922, April 15, 2011) was an American agronomist, professor, university administrator, agricultural extension administrator, and U.S. presidential adviser.
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He served as director of the Alabama Cooperative Extension Service, administrator of the federal Extension Service, interim president of the University of Florida, and chancellor of the State University System of Florida.
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