Frank Strong, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Frank Strong

American University president

Date of Birth: 05-Aug-1859

Place of Birth: Cayuga County, New York, United States

Date of Death: 06-Aug-1934

Profession: teacher, academic administrator

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Frank Strong

  • Frank Strong (1859–1934) was the third president of the University of Oregon from 1899 to 1902 and sixth Chancellor of the University of Kansas from 1902 to 1920.
  • Strong was born on August 5, 1859, in Venice Center, New York, a son of Mary Foote and John Butler Strong.
  • He graduated from the Yale Law School and between 1886–88 was a lawyer in Kansas City.
  • He left his law practice to become principal of a high school in St Joseph, Missouri.
  • Here he met Mary Evelyn Ransom; they married on June 24, 1890, and raised two children.
  • In 1892 he became superintendent of the Lincoln, Nebraska school district.Strong then went back to Yale University to obtain a Ph.D in 1897 with his dissertation Cromwell's colonial and foreign policy, with special reference to the West Indies expedition of 1654-5.
  • There he received the John Addison Porter Prize and was lecturer in United States history from 1897-1899.
  • Strong wrote some works on the colonial history of the United States.
  • Subsequently, president of the University of Oregon from 1899 to 1902, he went to the University of Kansas next.
  • Strong stormed onto campus declaring that KU was woefully inadequate and that much more money was needed.
  • In return, KU would graduate students capable of solving the state's economic and industrial problems, he said.
  • He won increased funding and founded the schools of education, journalism and medicine and expanded extension programs.
  • Four more buildings were completed before he resigned to teach law.
  • Strong died at his home in Lawrence, Kansas on August 6, 1934, the day after his 75th birthday.
  • He is interred at the Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn, New York.
  • Strong Hall on the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence is named after Chancellor Strong.
  • The building is on the National Register of Historic Places and contains offices, classrooms, and an auditorium.

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