page_title: National Irrigation Congress
section_title: People associated with the congress
hierarchical_section_title: National Irrigation Congress / People associated with the congress
context_page_description: The National Irrigation Congress was held periodically in the Western United States beginning in 1891 and ending in 1916, by which time the organization had changed its name to International Irrigation Congress. It was a "powerful pressure group."
context_section_description: Fred Lind Alles, secretary of the congress's national executive committee between 1893 and 1895.
  James H. Brady, Idaho governor, vice president of the congress from 1896 to 1898 and a member of its executive committee from 1900 until 1904 and vice president again from 1904 to 1908
  George Eames Barstow, financier, chairman of the congress's Pan-American committee and president of the congress in 1908–09
  Richard Fenner Burges, president of the International Irrigation Congress in 1915
  Joseph M. Carey of Cheyenne, Wyoming, congress president in 1897
  Governor George E. Chamberlain of Oregon, congress president in 1906
  Israel L. Diesem, president of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, who "attended nearly half of the annual sessions of the National Irrigation Congress since its inception"
  B.A. Fowler of Phoenix, Arizona, president in 1909–1910
  Frank C. Goudy of Denver, Colorado, president 1907–1908
  F. Robert Insinger of Spokane, Washington,  chairman of the board of the congress held in that city in 1910
  Herbert Burdell Maxson of Nevada and California, who served for eight years as congress secretary.
  James H. McClintock, Arizona member of the executive committee and secretary
  Senator Francis G. Newlands of Nevada, president in 1911–12
  California Governor George C. Pardee, two-term president of the congress
  Nevada Senator William Stewart, who helped start the organization 
  New Mexico State Senator George W. Swink, active in promoting the sugar-beet industry.
  Ralph E. Twitchell, a mayor of Santa Fe, New Mexico, who helped organize the first irrigation congress.
caption: Chamberlain
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