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John Harcourt Alexander Morgan (August 31, 1867 – August 25, 1950) was a Canadian-American entomologist, educator, and agricultural expert, who served as president of the University of Tennessee from 1919 until 1934.
Oct 8, 2017 · Harcourt Morgan, thirteenth president of the University of Tennessee (1919-34) and second chairman of the board of directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority (1938-41), was born in Kerrwood, Adelaide Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada, the child of a farming family.
Sep 25, 2018 · The 13th president of the university (1919–34), John Harcourt Alexander Morgan was born in Strathroy, Ontario, Canada, and was a Canadian citizen when he assumed the presidency of the university, a violation of a 1919 Tennessee law prohibiting schools from hiring teachers who were not US citizens.
Harcourt Morgan was the second director of the TVA, following the dismissal of Arthur Morgan- to whom he was not related- by Franklin Roosevelt. Morgan, an influential TVA leader in the late 1930s, was born in Canada, but had lived and studied in the United States.
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Norris argued convincingly that the plight of the Tennessee Valley region didn’t have a simple solution. Flooding was part of the problem; lack of adequate power was too. But the most obvious difficulty was the extremely poor state of the soil. In the 1920s and ’30s, much of the region resembled a desert. For those of us who grew up in a green, fer...
By 1934, the NFDC was churning out pumped-up phosphate-based fertilizers whose names sounded as if they were inspired by comic-book heroes: Triple Superphosphate, Calcium Metaphosphate. As the names implied, these new products had several times the potency of the stuff farmers had been buying by the ton. TVA distributed the fertilizers innovatively...
As the U.S. entered the postwar era, TVA fertilizer was being tested across a large part of the country (in at least 35 states, eventually). TVA Chairman Gordon Clapp was convinced of the project’s nationwide importance. “The long-range benefits of the TVA fertilizer program are not confined to any single group or area,” he wrote. “Rather, they acc...
Under the direction of Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Director Harcourt Morgan, the focus turned to research and development of fertilizers and through pilot work, the Muscle Shoals facility became the nation’s most complete fertilizer research and development center.
Oct 8, 2017 · Canadian-born Harcourt Morgan was an agricultural specialist who was well known and extremely popular in the Tennessee Valley and was president of the University of Tennessee. He spoke for farm owners and referred to land and the Tennessee River as “our common mooring.”
