Background
Winters, Rhett Youmans was born on March 9, 1886 in Society Hill, South Carolina, United States. Son of David Lawrence and Dora (Sompayrac) Winters.
Winters, Rhett Youmans was born on March 9, 1886 in Society Hill, South Carolina, United States. Son of David Lawrence and Dora (Sompayrac) Winters.
Bachelor of Science, Clemson (South Carolina.) Agricultural College, 1906, Doctor of Science, 1937. Master of Sciences, University of Florida, 1909. Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell Univercity, 1911.
Graduate assistant in botany, University of Florida, 1906-1909. Graduate assistant in plant breeding, Cornell Univercity, 1910-1911, instructor, 1911-1912. Plant breeding agronomist, North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, 1912-1923, director, 1924-1937.
Professor plant breeding, North Carolina State College, 1923-1924.
Principal administrator agricultural research, Office of Experiment Stations, United States Department of Agriculture, 1937-1939. Assistant director of research, United States Department of Agriculture, 1939-1942.
Research coordinator Agriculture Research Administration, United States Department of Agriculture, since 1942.
Member Institute for Social Research (member of board), Association of Land Grant Colleges Universities, Association Southern Agriculture Workers, Acacia, Alpha Zeta, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi. Clubs: Cosmos, Clemson (Washington, District of Columbia).
Married Elizabeth Washington Knox, June 17, 1917. Children: Elsa Smedes, Rhett Youmans, Dora Sompayrac.