Robert Lee Tontz Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS0175

Staff Only

Content Description

The Robert Lee Tontz Papers consist of statistics, clippings, and publications related to U.S. and foreign trade, including comparisons between exports and imports from 1790 through the 1970s. Also included are data about projected voting in congressional elections (farm versus nonfarm areas) dating from the 1950s to the 1970s. Other materials include correspondence, reports, membership files on the Farm Bureau and the Grange, and photographs. There is a copy of Tontz's work, The Agricultural Parity Concept: Reprints of Selected Articles and Memberships of General Farmers' Organizations, United States 1874-1960. A bibliography of Tontz's publications is also included.

Dates

Creation: 1920-1993

Conditions Governing Access

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Biographical Sketch

Robert Lee Tontz was chief of the Trade Statistics and Analysis Branch, Foreign Development and Trade Division, Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) during the 1960s. From the 1940s to the 1960s, Tontz taught and researched economic problems of international agricultural trade at several universities in the United States and at the USDA. He authored over 100 publications.