Walker, Francis Amasa, 1840-1897
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Walker, Francis Amasa, fl. 1871
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Francis Amasa Walker
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Walker, F.A., 1840-1897
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Walker, Francis A. 1840-1897 (Francis Amasa),
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American economist and educator.
Lawyer, educator, and economist.
American publicist.
Francis Amasa Walker, economist and author whose positions included Brigadier General in the Army of the Potomac, Superintedent of the U.S. Census, Professor of Economics at Yale, and President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Published numerous books and articles.
Samuel Sydney McClure, founder, editor, and publisher of McClure's Magazine.
Francis Amasa Walker, 1840-1897, BA 1860, Amherst College, was the third president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Walker became MIT president November 10, 1881; he died in office on January 5, 1897.
Francis Walker was an economist, lecturer, educator, and historian. Among the positions that he held were that of Superintendent of the Bureau of the Census. He was superintendent of the United States Ninth Census, 1870-1872, and the United States Tenth Census, 1879-1881. From 1873 to 1881 Walker was also professor of political economy and history in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University. During the Civil War he served with the Union Army from 1861 to 1865 and was discharged with the rank of brevet brigadier general. From 1884 to 1888 he served as a Commissioner to the U.S. Geological Survery for a topicalgraphical survery of Massachusetts which resulted in the publication of the Atlas of Massachusetts . He served in many other civic roles including as a member of the Massachusetts State Board of Education and the state hospital board, and as commissioner to the World's Columbian Exposition.
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