C.M. O'Donel
Bell Ranch, NM
1926

An Irishman, educated in Britain and France , who served in the Queen’s forces and fought in South Africa , O’Donel came to the U.S. in 1883 and became manger of the large Bell Ranch.  He was the first of two Bell Ranch managers to become President of the ANLSA.  Due to poor health, he served only one year.  At the Bell Ranch, he used only purebred bulls, first Shorthorns then Herefords, until he build one of the most famous Hereford herds in the Southwest.

L.C. Brite
Marfa, Texas
1927

After trailing a herd of cattle to the Big Bend area of Texas , Brite fell in love with the country, stayed, and put together a 128,000-acre ranch with 3,000 registered Herefords.  “There are three parts to live stock husbandry,” he preached, “breeding, feeding and marketing.”  In 1921 he bought a movie camera and made movies of his cattle, thus helping “Brite Bulls” become popular throughout the Southwest.  On the ranch, he built a tabernacle for annual “Brite Camp Meetings,” and endowed the Brite College of the Bible at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth .

Victor Culberson
Silver City, NM
1929-1930

Born in Georgia, grew up in Texas, and ran away from home at 13, he took odd jobs such as railroad crew water boy, waiter, miner and scout for troops fighting the Indians.  While working for a mine owned by G.O> Smith, he induced Mr. Smith to lease 150 cows, with which he built and managed the well-known GOS Ranch in New Mexico.  As president he called for rebuilding the nation’s cattle population, after it had dipped to only 11 million head.

Henry G. Boice
Tucson, Arizona
1931

Born in Missouri , he grew up on the XIT Ranch in Texas .  After attending school in Los Angeles , he became president and general manager of Chiricahua Cattle Company, Arizona ’s largest cattle company.  It ranged cattle on Indian reservations, national forests and state lands, as well as company land.  Back in Missouri , Boice’s grandfather traveled to England and returned with Anxiety 4th, the Hereford bull that became famous throughout America .

Charles E. Collins
Kit Carson, Colorado
1932-1935

“The grand old man of the livestock industry,” he was called.  Forceful and well informed, he served as President for four years, holding the Association together during the Great Depression.  He started out in the industry helping his father trail cattle, living both in Mexico and Kansas.  In 1907, he bought his first ranch in eastern Colorado and built it to 100,000 acres.  Not only a rancher, he was also a state senator, bank president and president of the Franklin Blackleg Serum Co., which he helped found.  He also was the father of the 1956 president of ANCA.