Ethan Allen Hitchcock

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Ethan Allen Hitchcock

American businessman and public official

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U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
…in 1902 by Interior Secretary Ethan Allen Hitchcock in the administration of President Theodore Roosevelt to provide irrigation water in order to “reclaim” unusably arid land for human benefit. It was initially called the U.S. Reclamation Service but was renamed the Bureau of Reclamation in 1923. It is best known…
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…in 1902 by Interior Secretary Ethan Allen Hitchcock in the administration of President Theodore Roosevelt to provide irrigation water in order to “reclaim” unusably arid land for human benefit. It was initially called the U.S. Reclamation Service but was renamed the Bureau of Reclamation in 1923. It is best known…
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