[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 43 (Monday, March 13, 2017)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E323]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     HONORING GLEN O. KLIPPENSTEIN

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                            HON. SAM GRAVES

                              of missouri

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, March 13, 2017

  Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, it is with great pleasure that I 
pause to honor a constituent of Missouri's 6th Congressional District 
and someone I am especially proud to call my friend, Glen O. 
Klippenstein, upon being honored with the Jay B. Dillingham Award for 
Agricultural Leadership and Excellence by the Agribusiness Council of 
Kansas City.
  Glen was born in Canada and grew up working on the family cattle 
operation. His family emigrated to Pennsylvania when he was 11, and it 
was there that he would attend Penn State University and turn down a 
job running former President Dwight D. Eisenhower's farm outside 
Gettysburg.
  He and a friend would later move to Missouri and establish GlenKirk 
Farms. GlenKirk became one of the premier cattle operations in the 
nation, selling over 7,000 bulls and 7,500 females across all 50 states 
and internationally in 22 countries and earning a place in the Hereford 
Heritage Hall of Fame. Glen would later serve in the Missouri state 
legislature in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. Glen 
is a tireless worker who is dedicated to aiding the agricultural 
community, serving as the two-term chairman of the National Beef 
Promotion and Research Board; as chairman of the American Polled 
Hereford Association; as director of the National Cattlemen's 
Association; as member and vice chairman of the Federal Agricultural 
Mortgage Corporation Board; and as the CEO of the American Chianina 
Association.
  Mr. Speaker, I could list many more organizations that Glen has 
guided and worked with over his very distinguished lifetime. However, I 
ask that you join me, Glen's wife Linda, their children Brian, Brett, 
Noel, and Ivan, their grandchildren and the agricultural community in 
congratulating Glen O. Klippenstein on this accomplishment and wishing 
him God's blessings in the years to come.

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