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111TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 739 

Honoring the life and achievements of Dr. Norman E. Borlaug for his 

many contributions to alleviating world hunger. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009 

Mr. BOSWELL (for himself, Mr. LATHAM, Mr. KING of Iowa, Mr. BRALEY of 

Iowa, Mr. LOEBSACK, Mr. KISSELL, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. GRAVES, Ms. 

MARKEY of Colorado, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. FORTENBERRY, Mr. MORAN of 

Kansas, Mr. HOLDEN, Mr. ROGERS of Alabama, Mr. WALZ, Mr. HOLT, 

Mr. PUTNAM, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, and Mr. JOHNSON of Illinois) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on 

Foreign Affairs 

RESOLUTION 

Honoring the life and achievements of Dr. Norman E. 

Borlaug for his many contributions to alleviating world 

hunger. 

Whereas the United States honors Norman E. Borlaug as an 

Iowan, humanitarian, and father of the ‘‘Green Revolution’’; 

Whereas Dr. Borlaug was born on March 25, 1914, and grew 

up on a family farm outside Cresco, Iowa; 

Whereas Dr. Borlaug attended the University of Minnesota, 

where he received B.A. and Ph.D. degrees and was also 

a star NCAA wrestler; 


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Whereas, for over 20 years, Dr. Borlaug was a member of 

the faculty of Texas A&M University; 

Whereas Dr. Borlaug spent 20 years working in the poorest 

areas of rural Mexico where he made his breakthrough 

achievement in developing a strain of wheat that could 

exponentially increase yields while actively resisting disease; 

Whereas Dr. Borlaug’s ‘‘green revolution’’ uplifted hundreds 

of thousands of the rural poor in Mexico and saved hundreds of millions from famine and outright starvation in 

India and Pakistan; 

Whereas Dr. Borlaug’s approach to wheat production next 

spread throughout the Middle East, and soon his approach was adapted to rice growing, increasing the number of lives Dr. Borlaug has been credited to saving to 

more than a billion people; 

Whereas in 1970, Dr. Borlaug received the Nobel Peace 

Prize, the only person working in agriculture to ever be 

so honored, and since then he has received numerous 

honors and awards, including the Presidential Medal of 

Freedom, the Public Service Medal, the National Academy of Sciences’ highest honor, the Rotary International 

Award for World Understanding and Peace, and the Congressional Gold Medal; 

Whereas, up until his death on September 12, 2009, Dr. 

Borlaug continued to work to alleviate poverty and malnutrition throughout the world; 

Whereas Dr. Borlaug created the World Food Prize in 1986, 

which is the ‘‘Nobel Prize for Food and Agriculture’’ and 

which has honored Laureates from Bangladesh, India, 


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China, Mexico, Denmark, Sierra Leone, Switzerland, the 

United Kingdom, and the United States; 

Whereas the headquarters of the World Food Prize is located 

in Des Moines, Iowa; and 

Whereas Dr. Borlaug’s humanitarian works have made him 

an American hero who will never be forgotten: Now, 

therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives honors 

2 the life and achievements of Dr. Norman E. Borlaug for 

3 his many contributions to alleviating world hunger. 

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