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George Peek
George Nelson Peek (November 19, 1873 – December 17, 1943) was an American agricultural economist, business executive, and civil servant. He was the first Administrator of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)〔Culver and Hyde, ''American Dreamer: The Life and Times of Henry A. Wallace,'' 2001, p.122; Saloutos, Theodore. ''The American Farmer and the New Deal.'' Ames, Ia.: Iowa State University Press, 1982, p. 53. ISBN 0-8138-1076-0; Volanto, Keith Joseph. ''Texas, Cotton, and the New Deal.'' College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 2005, p. 34. ISBN 1-58544-402-2〕 and the first President of the two banks that would become the Export-Import Bank of the United States.〔Becker and McLenahan, ''The Market, the State, and the Export-Import Bank of the United States, 1934-2000,'' 2003, p. 16.〕
==Early life and business career==
Peek was born in Polo, Illinois, on November 19, 1873.〔Shearer, Benjamin F. ''Home Front Heroes: A Biographical Dictionary of Americans During Wartime.'' Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood Publishing, 2007. ISBN 0-313-33423-4〕〔"George N. Peek, 70, Farm Expert, Dies." ''New York Times.'' December 18, 1943.〕〔Halcrow, Harold G. "Reviewed work(s): ''George N. Peek and the Fight for Farm Parity'' by Gilbert C. Fite." ''Journal of Farm Economics.'' 36:3 (August 1954).〕 His father was a farmer.〔 He attended Northwestern University from 1891 to 1892, but did not graduate.〔
He joined the Deere & Webber Company of Minneapolis in 1893, and was named Vice President of the John Deere Plow manufacturing division in Omaha, Nebraska in 1901.〔 In 1911, he was named President of the Deere & Co. subsidiary in Moline, Illinois.〔〔("Republicans: Back to Beginning." ) ''Time.'' October 12, 1936.〕 In 1919, he left Deere & Co. and became President of the Moline Plow Company, where he earned the relatively large salary of $100,000 a year.〔 He immediately hired retired Brigadier General Hugh S. Johnson as the company's general counsel.〔Hamby, Alonzo L. ''For the Survival of Democracy: Franklin Roosevelt and the World Crisis of the 1930s.'' New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004. ISBN 0-684-84340-4〕 Peek and Johnson were deeply interested in farm economics, especially since the post-World War I recession.〔Leffingwell, Randy. ''American Farm Tractor.'' St. Paul, Minn.: MBI Publishing Company, 2002. ISBN 0-7603-1370-9; Nelson, Daniel. ''Farm and Factory: Workers in the Midwest, 1880-1990.'' Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-253-32883-7〕 Peek and Johnson became strong advocates of the McNary–Haugen Farm Relief Bill, proposed federal legislation which would have established the first national system of price supports for agriculture.〔
Peek was a member of the War Industries Board during World War I,〔Cuff, Robert D. "A 'Dollar-a-Year Man' in Government: George N. Peek and the War Industries Board." ''Business History Review.'' 41:4 (Winter 1967).〕 and after the war was a member of the Industrial Board advising the United States Department of Commerce on post-war reconversion.〔〔
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