Warren R. Bailey Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS0013

Staff Only

Content Description

The Warren R. Bailey papers include correspondence and information on meetings attended, unpublished reports by various authors on topics such as food production and farms, published reports by Bailey and various authors, and handwritten reports and notes from college classes in economics that he attended.

Dates

Creation: 1933-1976

Conditions Governing Access

Contact Special Collections for access.

Biographical Sketch

Warren R. Bailey (1910-1984) joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 1938 as an agricultural economist working in the Bureau of Agricultural Economics (BAE) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He also served in BAE offices in Chicago, Illinois and Berkeley, California before moving to Washington, D.C. in 1952. During the 1950s, he conducted research on farming problems in the western United States. In the late 1960s, he served as acting chief of the Production Adjustments Division of the Economic Research Service (ERS). Bailey worked at USDA for 36 years, retiring in 1974 as the deputy director of the Commodity Economics Division of ERS.