Hubbard Russell
LosAngeles, CA
1938-1939

A dominant personality, he was a moving force in the ANLSA in the 1930s and 1940s.  Russell Brothers (Hub, Joe and Harvey ) operated about 50,000 acres north of Los Angeles and built the largest purebred herd of Herefords in the West.  They drove herds down the main streets of Los Angles, after midnight , as required by city ordinance, to market or move to another ranch.  In 1924, when foot-and-mouth disease erupted in Los Angeles , they were forced to drive 3,500 head into a trench to be shot and buried.

Albert K. Mitchell
Albert, New Mexico
1936-1937

“Everybody knew Albert, or felt they did,” says a distant rancher who never met him.  An esteemed leader, he served as president or chairman of numerous livestock organization, including the American Hereford Association, American Quarter Horse Association, National Live Stock and meat Board d and Cowboy Hall of Fame, and winner of the prestigious Golden Spur Award.  He was also a state representative and on the Republican National Committee.  He was the second of two managers of the large Bell Ranch to become President of ANLSA, and he ran his own family ranch, The Tequesquite, as well.

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.

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 .

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.