Jane Roe a.k.a. Norma Leah Nelson McCorvey

September 22, 1947 – February 18, 2017

 

I can’t tell you anons much about McCorvey however I can tell you an interesting tidbit about her attorney, Sarah Ragle Weddington whom served in the Carter administration, was the first Woman general Counsel for the Dept of Agriculture and here’s the kicker had many correspondence with Edmund Nichols during that post.

 

Nichols is an interesting fellow and just so happens to be the Father of Kelly Jones who was a radical PETA activist and get this, ex-wife of Alex Jones

 

Here are my notes on Nichols:

 

Edmund Lowe Nichols (SES/China/Japan/Rome/NATO)

-Assistant Texas Commissioner of Agriculture for governmental affairs and administration. 

 

“instrumental in launching the Texas Agricultural Products (TAP) export marketing program”

 

-traveled to Japan and Europe to open markets for such high quality Texas products as Ruby Red grapefruit and beef products. 

 

-TAP delegations to other states, hosting the first “Taste of Texas” events to promote high value foods produced and manufactured in Texas.”

 

-1977, Nichols was appointed Assistant Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D. C.

 

-joined the Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA)

(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Agricultural_Service) )

 

-served on the President’s Export Policy Task Force where he was named by President Jimmy Carter as a charter member of the U.S. Senior Executive Service

 

SES-https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_Executive_Service_(United_States)

 

-worked with Congressman Bob Poage, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, to pass the U.S. Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 (amended the 1966 Food for peace act)

 

-1979, Nichols was appointed U.S. Agricultural Counselor to Italy, assigned to the American Embassy in Rome, and was later commissioned by President Ronald Reagan to the rank of Minister-Counselor in the U.S. Senior Foreign Service.

 

-Agricultural Counselor to Denmark and Norway and twice as Agricultural Counselor to Spain

 

-1982, he was decorated by the President of Italy as Commendatore (knight commander and is the highest decree awarded by the President of Italy) of the Italian Republic

 

-served as Agricultural Minister-Counselor to the U.S. Mission to the European Communities in Brussels (the EU) from 1989 to 1992.

 

-chairman of the NATO Food and Agriculture Planning Committee

 

-Japan-Texas Association Conference

 

-Of particular note is his correspondence with Sarah Ragle Weddington(the lawyer who represented Jane Roe in Roe V. Wade)

(https://www.baylor.edu/library/index.php?id=)

-Reddington was In the Carter Administration(1979-1981)

-first woman General Counsel for the US Department of Agriculture.

(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Weddington)

 

Archive: https://archive.ph/WiBUT

 

https://cemetery.tspb.texas.gov/pub/user_form.asp?pers_id=11664

 

https://txarchives.org/baypll/finding_aids/20013.xml