George Nelson Peek was an American agricultural economist, business executive, and civil servant. He was the first Administrator of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and the first President of the two banks that would become the ExportImport Bank of the United States.
Peek was born in Polo, Illinois, on November 19, 1873. His father was a farmer. He attended Northwestern University from 1891 to 1892, but did not graduate.
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