Glenn Cowan Rutledge ACE President 1948-49 Mississippi State University Starkville, MS
Glenn Rutledge was born in Pine Grove, Louisiana, August 28, 1906. He received a
bachelor's degree in journalism from Louisiana State University in 1926. Following
graduation, he spent 14 years at the Biloxi-Gulfport Daily Herald at Gulfport,
Mississippi.
He spent more than five years in the Army during World War II and was discharged
with the rank of colonel.
After serving briefly as extension editor at Arkansas following the war, he was appointed editor
of the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station in 1948. He served in this
position until his retirement in 1971.
After retirement, he continued working in communications, serving as secretary-treasurer of the
Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists. He was also active in his church and in local civic
affairs, and was a past president of the Starkville Rotary club.
He died June 23, 1976, in Starkville, Mississippi. He was 69 years old.
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