Artist: Joseph Allworthy (1892–1991)
Francis Marion Simpson
SIMPSON, FRANCIS MARION (1887–1974), inducted 1955
Francis Marion—“F. M.” or “Fanny”—Simpson was born in Johnson County, Illinois, graduated from the University of Illinois College of Agriculture in 1909, and joined the staff of the college’s extension division upon graduation. That same year, he also became head of the livestock marketing department at the Illinois agricultural association in Chicago. In 1913, Simpson became an instructor in the university’s animal husbandry department. Within a year, he had relocated to Washington, DC, where he oversaw centralized livestock marketing activities for the Federal Bureau of Markets, USDA. Simpson was manager of the American Commission Company at the Denver stockyards and was also director of livestock marketing for the Illinois Agricultural Association. In addition, he was general manager and assistant to the president of the National Live Stock Producers Association in 1921–1922. He served as the first editor of the National Live Stock Producer. Beginning in the 1930s, he headed the agricultural research division at Swift and Company, Chicago; and in 1952 Professor Simpson joined the Department of Agricultural Economics at Clemson Agricultural College, where he was employed when inducted.
Source: Saddle & Sirloin Guidebook 2026, p. 178