The Conservation Fight: From Theodore Roosevelt to the Tennessee Valley Authority (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

King, Judson

9780666519894: The Conservation Fight: From Theodore Roosevelt to the Tennessee Valley Authority (Classic Reprint)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0666519897 ISBN 13: 9780666519894

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

Excerpt from The Conservation Fight: From Theodore Roosevelt to the Tennessee Valley Authority

Judson King knew all the actors in the mighty tva drama which started with the conservation movement in Teddy Roosevelt's day. The greatest star, of course, was Senator George Norris of Nebraska. He fought on every front, held the line in the Senate though it bulged badly at times, rallied his forces constantly, overcame vetoes by Presi dents Coolidge and Hoover; fought on and on to victory, which came when the Great Depression weakened the Opposition and President Franklin D. Roosevelt was enabled to put the final stamp of approval on this magnificent enterprise. Throughout this long and titanic struggle to save the waters of the great Tennessee River, Judson King fought staunchly at the side of Senator Norris.

For many years, Judson and his wife, Bertha Hale King, drove by Senator Norris' home on critical days, took him to his office and then proceeded to their own Office in downtown Washington, often taking the Senator home again in the evening. The strategy and many of the specific steps in the long fight to keep Muscle Shoals for the people and for full development of the Tennessee River basin were planned during these trips. Judson has rheen described as the man who passed the ammunition' which Norris and many of his colleagues fired in the long struggle. There are glimpses of Judson's personal participation in the fight in this book. But they are only glimpses. Actually, he was a daily participant whose concentration, energy and zeal attracted and inspired others to be active in his great cause.

Judson was born in Waterford, Pennsylvania in 1872 and was left an orphan at 6 years of age. He was placed on a farm to be reared, leaving at age 17 to seek an education. After attending a sectarian school in his home state, he went to the University of Michigan. He founded the Denison (texas) Morning Sun in 1902. Three years later he went to Toledo, Ohio, to work with the vigorous reform Mayor Golden Rule Jones and his successor, Brand Whitlock, the famed lawyer-novelist-reformer and noted wartime ambassador to Belgium.

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