As a politician and statesman Şevket Raşit Hatipoğlu

Although Şevket Raşit Hatipoğlu is considered to have been born in 1898 according to official records, he was actually born in 1900 in the Helvacı village of Menemen district of Izmir. He completed his primary education in the village where he was born and his secondary education in Menemen and Kırkağaç. He graduated from Bursa Agricultural Surgery School in 1913 and then from Halkalı Agricultural School in 1923. Later, he passed the competitive exam and was sent to Paris in 1925 to specialize in economics and agricultural economics. In 1926, he was transferred to Germany by the government for education. He returned to Turkey in 1931 and started working as a lecturer at Ankara Higher Agricultural School. He entered political life as the Afyonkarahisar Deputy during the single-party period. Şevket Raşit Hatipoğlu was elected as Afyonkarahisar Deputy in the by-elections held in 1941. He took part in the Parliament as Manisa Deputy in the general elections held in 1943. Meanwhile, I. and II. He served as the Minister of Agriculture during the Şükrü Saraçoğlu Governments. While he was in this position, the 1945 Farmers' Landing Law was accepted by the Parliament. Although Şevket Raşit Hatipoğlu was a candidate in the elections on May 14, 1950, which resulted in the victory of the Democratic Party, he could not be elected as a member of parliament. Hatipoğlu, who returned to active politics after the May 27 military coup, was a CHP representative in the 1960 Constituent Assembly. II. He was appointed as the Minister of National Education in the İnönü Coalition Government between 1962 and 1963. He left CHP in 1967. He was among the founders of the Güven Party, which was established in 1967. His political life ended when he failed to win in the 1969 elections. He died in Ankara in 1973. Key Words: Republican People's Party, Tea, Farmers' Landing Law, Şevket Raşit Hatipoğlu, Ministry of Agriculture, Turkey.