[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 42 (Wednesday, March 12, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E380-E381]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   IN RECOGNITION OF F.N. McNAIR, JR.

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                            HON. JOE WILSON

                           of south carolina

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, March 12, 2008

  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Madam Speaker, I wish to recognize Mr. 
Nick McNair, Jr., who resides in Lexington, SC, on the occasion of his 
retirement from AgFirst Farm Credit Bank on April 1, 2008.
  Much of Nick McNair's life and career has been dedicated to 
agriculture and the cooperative Farm Credit System. His interest began 
as a child growing up on his family's row crop and livestock farm south 
of Leary, GA. At a young age, Nick began to appreciate the vital role 
that agriculture played in his community and in his home State. After 
receiving his education from Leary Elementary School and Edison High 
School, Nick pursued his education at Georgia Southern College in 
Statesboro, GA and graduated in 1967.
  From 1961 through 1963, Nick supported himself by working at Morris 
Cattle Company in Leary, GA. He also worked for Arlington Oil Mills, 
Inc., in Arlington, GA, in their cotton ginning operation. As Nick's 
interest in agriculture continued to grow, he worked for the Baker and 
Newton County ASCS offices as a performance reporter during the summers 
of 1963-1966.
  In August of 1967, Nick began his career with the Farm Credit System 
as a fieldman and association appraiser for the Federal Land

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Bank Association of Camilla in Camilla, GA. Over the next several 
years, Nick was employed as a vice president with the Northeast Florida 
Farm Credit Service in Jacksonville, FL and also the FLBA of Dawson, 
before being selected as President of the FLBA of Ahoskie in Ahoskie, 
NC, in 1979.
  In 1982, Nick was employed by the Farm Credit Bank of Columbia, SC, 
now known as AgFirst Farm Credit Bank. He has served in many capacities 
including vice president of marketing as well as vice president of 
legislative and public affairs. In 2001. he was named Distinguished 
Cooperator of the year by the South Carolina Cooperative Council. He 
has also served as president of the Friends of Agriculture in South 
Carolina.
  I certainly appreciate the outstanding work Nick has done throughout 
his distinguished career to promote not only cooperative principles but 
the vital role that agriculture plays in our everyday Iives. I thank 
his wife. Phyllis, and two daughters, Shonna and Angie, and the entire 
McNair family for their support of Nick throughout the years. I 
congratulate Nick on his retirement and thank him sincerely for his 
many positive contributions to AgFirst and the State of South Carolina.

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