Thomas D. Campbell

Thomas Campbell
Time cover, January 1928
BornFebruary 19, 1882
DiedMarch 18, 1966 (aged 84)
Alma materUniversity of North Dakota
Known forFarming, Agriculturist

Thomas D. Campbell (1882–1966) was the "World's Wheat King". On the farms of his Campbell Farming Corporation he grew more wheat than any other farmer or corporation. He pioneered industrialized corporate farming. As a consultant in agriculture, he advised the British, French and Soviet governments, including advising Stalin in 1929 on large-scale farming for the Soviet Union's first five-year plan. He served in the U.S. military in World War II and developed the napalm fire bomb used in the Pacific Theatre. He became a brigadier general in the Air Force in 1946.