Rural Electrification Administration Created to Bring Power to Farms Private Utilities Refused to Serve
President Roosevelt creates the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) by executive order on May 11, 1935, establishing a federal program to extend electricity to rural areas that private utility companies had refused to serve. At the time of REA’s creation, only 10 percent of American …
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