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Jump to full article: The Washington Post, 2005-10-15
Intro: Claude Gibbs Turner, 94, an official with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's tobacco division, died of congestive heart failure Sept. 20 at the Fairfax, a military retirement home at Fort Belvoir.
Mr. Turner was born on a tobacco farm near Chase City, Va. After graduating from Virginia Tech University in 1934, he became a county agricultural agent for several years, principally in Franklin County. He joined the USDA's tobacco division in 1940 . . . .
After the war, he returned to the Agriculture Department and worked in the tobacco stabilization department. He was later named director of the tobacco division, which was responsible for producing and marketing tobacco. At the time of his retirement in 1972, he was director of the tobacco policy staff.
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