Edwin Alderman
Edwin Anderson Alderman | |
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| Born | May 15, 1861 |
| Died | April 30, 1931 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of North Carolina United States Naval Academy Cornell University |
| Occupation | Educator |
| Known for | 8th President of the University of North Carolina |
| Term | 1896-1900 |
| Predecessor | George Tayloe Winston |
| Successor | Francis Preston Venable |
Edwin Anderson Alderman (1861-1931) served as the President of three universities. The University of Virginia's Alderman Library is named after him, as is Edwin A. Alderman Elementary School in Wilmington.
Alderman graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1882. He became a schoolteacher in Goldsboro, North Carolina, and then superintendent of the school district there.
In 1891, Alderman and Charles Duncan McIver successfully pressed the North Carolina Legislature to establish the Normal and Industrial School for Women, now known as the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Alderman taught there until 1893, when he became a professor at the University of North Carolina; he was named president of that institution in 1896. He moved on to take the same position at Tulane University in 1900, before moving again to the University of Virginia in 1904. There he stayed for 27 years, until his death in 1931 from a stroke in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, while en route to deliver a speech in Illinois. He is buried at the University of Virginia Cemetery.[1]
He spent two-thirds of his long term at the University of Virginia physically disabled after a bad bout with tuberculosis.[2]
Alderman was a noted public speaker, and won fame for his memorial address for Woodrow Wilson, delivered to a joint session of Congress on December 15, 1924.
Academic Career
- 1896-1900 – President of the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
- 1900-1904 – President of Tulane University (New Orleans, Louisiana)
- 1904-1931 – President of the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, Virginia)
References
- ^ Cooper, Jean L. (2007). A Guide to Historic Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Virginia. Charleston, S.C.: The History Press. p. 105. ISBN 9781596291737.
- ^ Hail to the Chiefs http://www.virginia.edu/insideuva/2005/08/chiefs.html. URL retrieved June 23, 2006.
Sources
- American National Biography, vol. 1, pp. 242-243.
- Dumas Malone, Edwin A. Alderman: A Biography (1940).