William Pratt Graham

William Pratt Graham (November 24, 1871 – January 10, 1962) was an electrical engineering professor and the sixth chancellor of Syracuse University. Graham was the first alumnus of Syracuse as well as the first non-clergyman to hold that position.[3][4][5]

William Pratt Graham
Chancellor of Syracuse University
In office
1937–1942
Preceded byCharles Wesley Flint
Succeeded byWilliam P. Tolley
Personal details
Born(1871-11-24)November 24, 1871
DiedJanuary 10, 1962(1962-01-10) (aged 90)
Spouse(s)
Cora M. Dodson
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(m. 1899; died 1958)​
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Alma materSyracuse University

Biography

Graham was born to Jerome Bonaparte Graham, a veteran of the Civil War, and Sylvia Aurelia Graham in Oswego, New York.[1] Graham entered Syracuse University as an undergraduate in 1889 and graduated in 1893 before pursuing postgraduate work at the University of Berlin,[6] graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy in 1897.[1] He joined the faculty of Syracuse as an electrical engineering professor in 1898, after spending the intervening period studying the subject at Technische Universität Darmstadt,[1] and he was made dean of the College of Applied Science in 1912.[7][3][1] Graham served as the vice-chancellor to Charles Wesley Flint before succeeding him as chancellor in 1937, a position Graham intended to hold only until a successor was found.[3][8][4] Graham retired from the university in 1942 when William Pearson Tolley was elected chancellor.[9] He died in Syracuse, New York in 1962.[6][5]

Bibliography
  • "The Classics from the Standpoint of an Engineer". The Classical Weekly. Johns Hopkins University Press. 11 (13): 104. January 21, 1918. JSTOR 4387585.

References
  1. Fitch, Charles Elliott (1916). Encyclopedia of Biography of New York. 5. New York: American Historical Society, Incorporated. p. 109.
  2. "Mrs. William Graham". Syracuse Herald-Journal. October 25, 1958 – via Newspaperarchive.com.
  3. Greene, John Robert (2000). The Hill: An Illustrated Biography of Syracuse University, 1870–present. Syracuse University Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-0815606482.
  4. Greene, John Robert (1996). Syracuse University, Vol. 4: The Tolley years, 1942–1969. Syracuse University Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-0815627012.
  5. "Dr. William Pratt Graham Dies; Ex-Chancellor of Syracuse U.". The New York Times. January 12, 1962. p. 35.
  6. "Memory and Our Mystic Shrine". The Beta Theta Pi. 89 (5): 459. May 1962.
  7. "Syracuse University History: Chancellors of Syracuse University". Syracuse University Archives. Syracuse University. Retrieved December 13, 2015.
  8. Phillips, Richard (2005). Hendricks Chapel: Seventy-five Years of Service to Syracuse University. Syracuse University Press. p. 71. ISBN 978-0815608271.
  9. Galvin, Edward L.; Mason, Margaret A.; O'Brien, Mary M. (2013). Syracuse University. Arcadia Publishing. pp. 51, 57. ISBN 978-0738599311.
Academic offices
Preceded by
Charles Wesley Flint		 Chancellor of Syracuse University
1937–1942		 Succeeded by
William P. Tolley
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