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Oliver Golden

1887–1940

United States

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Oliver John Golden (Russian: О́ливер Джон Го́лден; November 18, 1887 – 1940) was an American and Soviet agronomist and politician. Born in Yazoo County, Mississippi, he studied cotton at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. A member of the Communist Party USA, he spent time in Soviet Russia and was later part of a delegation of cotton experts who arrived in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic at the invitation of the Soviet government.

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