{"title":"Hard Times","authors":"Robert Christensen","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651040.003.0003","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The Great Depression made a hard life even worse. Out of the rural poverty, Kerr Scott led a re-organized State Grange to fight for famer interests. This provided Kerr Scott with a political base to be elected state agriculture commissioner in 1936 as a New Deal Democrat.","PeriodicalId":288356,"journal":{"name":"The Rise and Fall of the Branchhead Boys","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Rise and Fall of the Branchhead Boys","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651040.003.0003","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The Great Depression made a hard life even worse. Out of the rural poverty, Kerr Scott led a re-organized State Grange to fight for famer interests. This provided Kerr Scott with a political base to be elected state agriculture commissioner in 1936 as a New Deal Democrat.