When I first asked to name famous agricultural technicians, most people assume there is none. However, this is far from the truth. In fact, There are many famous agricultural technicians throughout history, but usually become famous for other activities. In fact, most professionals worked for centuries together in several different professions, like politics, the military, exploration, and surveying. In fact, several U.S. Presidents are among the ranks famous surveyors.

Did you know that George Washington was a surveyor? At the age of 17 years, the future president George Washington was named the Surveyor General of Virginia in 1749. In that year, the English colony of Virginia planned to promote the expansion of supply of land speculators thousand hectares for every family who might be persuaded to move west. He became the first experts County record in the U.S..

Benjamin Banneker, a self-taught African Mathematician, astronomer and surveyor, was appointed in 1789 by President George Washington to survey the area that became Washington, DC The project study of the nation's capital was completed between 1791 and 1793. Like many agricultural technicians of this era, also enjoyed several other activities professionals, at the same time, including the watch and the publication of an almanac.

Another famous surveyor, Thomas Jefferson, was also a Chairman of U.S. later in life. He was appointed County Surveyor for Albemarle County in Virginia in 1773. As Secretary of State under George Washington, and later as chairman, appointment of inspectors later gave the young nation address to promote the settlement of the border. One of his most famous acts as president was in the organization of the Expedition of Lewis and Clark to explore and recognize the west. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, who explored the area of the Louisiana Purchase from 1804 to 1806, contributed greatly to the U.S. survey. The maps of the area with considerable accuracy for the period of time, allowing the expansion western United States.

Daniel Boone, who lived from 1734 to 1820, is famous for its pioneering and exploration, as Lewis and Clark. He also was a surveyor. Most efforts to lift their land was in Kentucky, to resolve claims settlers to land titles. The British explorer Captain James Cook, born in 1728, sailed all the oceans. Not only study but also investigated the areas he found. These are just some surveyors, who may not have realized were land surveyors and who rose to fame as scouts and not for land surveyors.

Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon survey efforts to survive in the "Mason-Dixon Line, the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania. This line divides the "trafficking states "of the" free states "during the debates in Congress over the Missouri Compromise in 1820. Today, this line is being used to distinguish the South from the north.

Another president who previously occupied the post of surveyor was Abraham Lincoln, who served as deputy county surveyors, and Post and the operator of a general store. Indeed, Lincoln was working as an inspector, when he was elected to the Illinois legislature at the beginning of his political career.

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