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.

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.

J. Elmer Brock
Kaycee, Wyoming
1940-1941

Brock was born in Missouri, attended high school in Wyoming, business college in Nebraska, and then settled in Wyoming.  He was remembered as a “far-sighted and many –sided’ man, known to his colleagues as an independent thinker, diplomat and practical economist.   E was also candid and had a fiery disposition.  “There are 59 federal land management agencies controlling our public lands,” he snorted in one speech, “and the Forest Service is the worst.”  A fighter for private ownership of public lands, he frequently slammed “the federal over-lordship.”  As president when the U.S. entered World War II, he pledged the Association’s support and extolled patriotism among members.

Frank S. Boice
Sonoita, Arizona
1942-1943

A brother of the 1931 ANSLA President, he helped devise a program of controls during WWII.  Not a believer in controls he became convinced they were necessary to avoid disastrous inflation.  In an emotional speech during the 1944 Convention, he expressed “a mixture of pride and hope, confusion, doubt and frustration… concerning the kind of nation we are building for ourselves in the future.”  For his services, Boice was elected to the Cowboy Hall of Fame in 1958.

A.D. Brownfield
Deming, NM
1944-1945

Born in Broomfield , Texas , a town named for his father, young “Dee ” moved to New Mexico in 1915, where he produced fine Herefords.  He helped organize the Production Credit Association, helped establish the New Mexico agricultural Experiment Station, served in the state legislature, was President of the New Mexico Cattle Growers Association and one of the first directors of the Cowboy Hall of Fame.  He felt his greatest accomplishment was to help write the Taylor Grazing Act and Federal Range Code.