[1] He was a cattle rancher and agriculturist near Phoenix, who at one point was the largest producer of sugar beet seed in the world.
[5] In October of that year, he attended their officer training program at Fort Monroe in Virginia.
[2] He was chairman of the public lands committee which was the driving force behind getting the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934 passed into law.
He pioneered the growing of both cardinal grapes and winter sweet corn in the Salt River Valley, and his ranch in Litchfield Park was one of the largest producers of cardinal grapes in the country.
At one point, he and his partner, Floyd Smith were the largest producers of sugar beet seed in the world.