Bradford Knapp

Bradford Knapp (1870 – 1938) was an American educator, born at Vinton, Iowa. He was educated at Vanderbilt University and, in law, at the University of Michigan. For several years he practiced law in Iowa and until 1911 was engaged in cooperative demonstration work for the Bureau of Plant Industry. In 1911 he was appointed special agent in this bureau and from 1915 to 1920 was chief of the Office of Extension Work in the South for the States Relations Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. In 1920 he became dean of the College of Agriculture of the University of Arkansas and director of the State Experiment Station. He was president of the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College (now Oklahoma State University) from 1923 until 1928 when he became president of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University) where he served until 1933.cite web |url=http://www.lib.auburn.edu/archive/find-aid/533/bk-bio.htm | title=AU Archives--Biography of Pres. Bradford Knapp (1870-1938) | publisher=Auburn University Archives | author=AU Archives | date= | accessdate=2006-12-01 ] After leaving Alabama, he moved to Lubbock, Texas to serve as President of Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University) until his death in 1938.

Professor Knapp wrote "Safe Farming, How the Whole Country Demonstrated" and publications for the United States Department of Agriculture.

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* [http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ttuua/00002/tua-00002.html Papers, 1891-1940 and undated, in the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University]

* [http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ttusw/00001/tsw-00001.html Papers, 1856-1931, of his father Seaman Knapp in the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University]