William Dempster Hoard, born October 10, 1836, and died November 22, 1918, was an American politician and newspaper publisher who served as the sixteenth governor of Wisconsin from 1889 to 1891 and became one of the leading advocates for modern dairy farming in the United States. He founded Hoard's Dairyman magazine and the Wisconsin Dairymen's Association to promote practices such as silo use and alfalfa cultivation, and as governor he established the state's first food inspection agency, though his signing of the Bennett Law requiring English-language school instruction provoked backlash among German and Scandinavian immigrant communities and contributed to his defeat in 1890.
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Defining ContributionCalled the father of modern dairying for his dairy farming advocacy 1 In the Other Atlases
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1. William D. Hoard - Wikipedia
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William Dempster Hoard (October 10, 1836 - November 22, 1918) was an American politician, newspaper publisher, and agriculture advocate who was the 16th governor of Wisconsin from 1889 to 1891.
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William Dempster Hoard (October 10, 1836 - November 22, 1918) was an American politician, newspaper publisher, and agriculture advocate who was the 16th governor of Wisconsin from 1889 to 1891.
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William Dempster Hoard (October 10, 1836 - November 22, 1918) was an American politician, newspaper publisher, and agriculture advocate who was the 16th governor of Wisconsin from 1889 to 1891.
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Called the 'father of modern dairying', Hoard's advocacy for scientific agriculture and the expansion of dairy farming has been credited with changing Wisconsin's agricultural economy.
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