Allan B. Kline

(1895-1968) born at Waterbury, Dixon County. Farm organization leader, farmer, served as president of the American Farm Bureau Federation from 1947 to 1954, representing 1.4 million farm families, served as consultant before congressional committees and international conferences on agriculture, opposed government price control programs, favored Marshall Plan in 1948 which he assisted in administering as one of 12 board members. Consult Current Biography (1948) 356-358 and Omaha World Herald Magazine, April 25, 1950, p. C-4 and Current History, Vol 28 (June 1955) 362-368 and Political Profiles: The Truman Years (Facts On File, 1978) 287-288 and New York Times obituary, June 16, 1968, p. 68.

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