Early Life
Redenbacher was born in Brazil, Indiana on July 16,1907, and grew up on his family's farm where he sometimes sold popcorn from the back of his car . He graduated from Brazil High School in 1921 in the top 5% of his class. He attended Purdue University, where he joined the agriculture-oriented Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity and the Purdue All-American Marching Band. He also joined the Purdue University track team. He graduated in 1928 with a degree in agronomy. He spent most of his life in the agriculture industry, serving as a Vigo County Farm Bureau extension agent in Terre Haute, Indiana, and at Princeton Farms in Princeton, Indiana.
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