Joseph Grant Knapp

Background

Knapp, Joseph Grant was born on November 22, 1900 in Loveland, Colorado, United States. Son of Mason E. and Florence Amy (White) Knapp.

Education

Student, Colorado

Career

Research assistant University of Chicago, 1923-1924. Fellow Food Research Institute, Stanford, 1924-1925, teaching assistant, 1925-1926. Member of staff Institute Economics, Brookings Institution, 1926-1929, 44-46.

Associate professor charge agricultural marketing, associate agricultural economist North Carolina State College, 1929-1934.

Senior agricultural economist Farm Credit Administration, 1934-1936, principal agricultural economist, 1936-1948, associate and acting chief cooperative research and service division, 1948-1953. Administrator Farmer Cooperative Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, 1954-1966, independent writer, consultant, from 1966.

Achievements

• Joseph Grant Knapp has been listed as a noteworthy economist. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member American Economics Association, American Farm Economics Association, American Marketing Association (president Washington chapter 1956-1957), Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Nu, Alpha Kappa Psi. Club: Cosmos (Washington).

Connections

Married Carol Maud Freston West, February 13, 1929. Children: Sheila Margaret (Mistress Woodard), John Laurence.

Father:

Mason East. Knapp

Mother:

Florence Amy (White) Knapp

Spouse:

Carol Maud Freston West

child:

Sheila Margaret Knapp (Mistress Woodard)

child:

John Laurence Knapp