North Carolina Agricultural Hall of Fame Inductees Year Inductee 1967 Leonidas LaFayette Polk Clarence Hamilton Poe Jane Simpson McKimmon Lynton Yates Ballentine Hugh Hammond Bennett William Kerr Scott Robert Flake Shaw Thomas Everett Browne 1969 Benjamin Wesley Kilgore Jaspar Edgar Winslow 1971 Alonzo Clay Edwards 1974 Ira Obed Schaub 1976 David Stathem Weaver Ruth Augusta Current 1977 Thomas Watkins Allen Claude Tipp Hall 1978 Manly G. Mann 1981 Harry B. Caldwell 1983 Earl Baxter Garrett 1986 B.C. Mangum H. Brooks James 1987 John W. Sledge 1988 Mrs. Harry B. Caldwell Leary Rhinehart Harrill 1989 Mose Kiser Sr. 1991 Ralph Henderson Scott Sr. James D. Kilgore 1992 Robert Earle Jones Sr. 1993 Foil W. McLaughlin 1997 Aaron W. Solomon Sr. 2000 Allen Derwood Swindell 2003 Fred Latham L.A. "Speed" Riggs 2008 James A. "Jim" Graham 2009 Vernon G. James 2020 Fred N. Colvard John Holman Cyrus Marshall W. Grant