University of Chicago Office of the President, Wilson administration records 1891-1978 (inclusive).

Bruckner, D.J.R.

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A monument to the Swedish biologist Carl von Linné (1707-1778), a replica of a work by Johan Dyfverman, was given to the City of Chicago by the area's Swedish-American community in 1891. The monument stood for most of the twentieth century at the corner of Fullerton Avenue and Cannon Drive in Lincoln Park. Beginning in the fifties, Swedish-American organizations in the Chicago area began seeking out a potential new location for the monument. In 1975, George Beadle, President Emeritu...

Kleinbard, Jonathan.

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Wilson, John T. (John Todd), 1914-1990

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Ninth president (1975-1978) of the University of Chicago. Born 1914. A.B. from George Washington University (1941), M.A. from State University of Iowa (1942), and Ph. D. from Stanford University (1948). Expert on relations between universities and government. Died 1990. From the description of Papers, 1930-1983 (inclusive). (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 43062362 John Todd Wilson (1914-1990) received his A.B. degree with distinction from Ge...

Johnson, D. Gale (David Gale), 1916-2003

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University of Chicago.

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Most of the records in the collection pertain to the $400,000 raised by the American Baptist Education Society in 1889-1890 in order to obtain a 600,000 grant from John D. Rockefeller for the creation of an endowment for the University of Chicago. The first volume in the inventory, Record of Pledges for the University of Chicago, contains an alphabetical numbered listing of subscribers, amounts pledged, and payments made through 1906. The subscription forms and letters (1:4-13) are numbered to c...

University of Chicago. Office of the President

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Lawrence A. Kimpton (1910-1977) completed his Ph.D. in philosophy at Cornell University in 1935. He worked in California and Nevada throughout the late 1930s, teaching at the experimental Deep Springs College and working as a cattle rancher. He came to Chicago in 1943 to work as Chief Administrative Officer of the Metallurgical Laboratory, associated with the Manhattan Project. University Chancellor Robert Maynard Hutchins hired Kimpton as Dean of Students in 1944. In 1947, Kimpton returned to S...

Cannon, William B., 1920-

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William B. Cannon (1920-2006) was a professor and administrator at the University of Chicago between 1954 and 1989. He was concurrently involved with national politics, active in the Bureau of the Budget during Lyndon B. Johnson's administration. Cannon was a key figure in the development of Johnson's "War on Poverty" policy, including the controversial Community Action Program implemented in 1964. Cannon was born in Cascade, Iowa, where he completed a Catholic high scho...