FFA History People
First person elected to serve as National President.
Leslie Applegate
Girls were allowed to join the organization.
1969
Smith-Huges Act was passed.
1917
Official colors that were adopted in 1929
National Blue and Corn Gold
Hotel in Kansas City where the FFA was founded in 1928.
Baltimore Hotel
First African American elected to serve as a National Officer in 1973, served as secretary and was from Texas.
Fred McClure
Official Jacket was adopted
1933
Public Law 740 was passed by Congress granting the FFA a federal charter.
1950
First National Congress of Vo-Ag students assembled in Kansas City for the National Livestock Judging contest.
1926
Arkansas
Wrote the FFA Creed in 1930.
E.M. Tiffany
National FFA Camp and Leadership Training School started.
1937
What year was the National Convention first streamed on the internet?
2004
1935
Where did the National Convention move to in 1999?
Louisville, Kentucky
Who was the National Advisor that retired in 2011 after 26 years?
Dr. Larry Case
1965
Henry Groseclose, Harry Sanders, Walter Newman and Edmund Magill organized the Future Farmers of Virginia (FFV).
1925
FFA members joined the War Effort.
1942
California
The first African American elected to serve as National President. He was from Illinois.
Corey Flournory
The First FFA Week was celebrated.
1948
1944
Name of the magazine started in 1952.
The National Future Farmer
In 1939 the National FFA Camp was set up on land formerly owned by George Washington. Later became the National FF Center. Where was this land located?
Alexandria, Virginia
This individual was the first person from Puerto Rico to serve as National President in 2003
Javier Moreno
FFA membership hit 1 million.
2024
The year the National Convention was first held in Indianapolis.
2006
The organization changed it's name to the National FFA Organization.
1988
The National FFA Center moved from Alexandria, Virginia to this city in 1999.
Indianapolis, IN
Who is the current National Advisor?
Dr. Travis Parks
1971
The name of The National Future Farmer magazine was changed to New Horizions.
1989
First FFA Owned National Headquarters
1939
1976