Artist: Joseph Allworthy (1892–1991)
Allan Blair Kline
KLINE, ALLAN BLAIR (1895–1968), inducted 1963
Born in Dixon County, Nebraska, Allan B. Kline earned degrees from Morningside College in Sioux City and Iowa State College. He operated a farm in Iowa until 1944. Over the course of his career, he served as president of a local Farm Bureau, president of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, and president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, the latter representing 1.4 million farm families. During his tenure at the national organization (through 1954), Kline was a consultant before congressional committees and international conferences on agriculture; he opposed government price control programs; and he supported the Marshall Plan, serving on the twelve-member board to administer it in 1948. Kline was president of the International Federation of Agricultural Producers from 1953 to 1955.
Source: Saddle & Sirloin Guidebook 2026, p. 123