Year
1917
Smith Hughes Act established funding for Ag Ed Classes
First female National FFA President
Jan Eberly
1925
Future Farmers of Virginia established by Henry C. Groseclose
First president to speak at a National FFA Convention
Dwight Eisenhower
1928
FFA established in Kansas City, Missourri
First FFA President
Leslie Applegate
1950
FFA received a National Charter
Spoke at the FFA Convention in the 1970s
Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon
1969
Women were allowed to join FFA
A former president who spoke at the FFA Convention in 1957. He was the president who dropped who dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan
Harry Truman
2024
FFA membership hits one million members
Later a president, this individual spoke to the National FFA Convention in the 1980s when he was Vice President of the USA
George HW Bush