High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! E. Travis "E.T." York, Jr. (born July 4, 1922) is an American agronomist, professor, university administrator, agricultural extension administrator, and U.S. presidential adviser. York is a native of Alabama, and earned his bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees in agricultural sciences. He served as the director of the Alabama Cooperative Extension Service, the administrator of the federal Extension Service, the interim president of the University of Florida, and the chancellor of the State University System of Florida. York was born and raised in the Valley Head community in DeKalb County in northeast Alabama, and came of age during the Great Depression. After graduating from high school in 1939, York enrolled at Alabama Polytechnic Institute (API) (now Auburn University) in Auburn, Alabama, and earned his bachelor's degree in agricultural science in 1942.