Eugene Allen Gilmore

Eugene Allen Gilmore

Eugene Allen Gilmore (born July 4, 1871 in Brownville , Nebraska , † November 4, 1953 in Iowa City , Iowa ) was an American legal scholar, politician and Governor General of the Philippines .

Studies and university professor

Gilmore first studied at DePauw University , where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1893 . He then studied law at Harvard Law School , where he earned a Bachelor of Laws in 1899 . After working as a lawyer in Boston , he was a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin – Madison from 1902 to 1922 . From 1912 to 1913 he was the acting dean of the law faculty there .

When Gilmore returned from the Philippines in 1930, he became dean of the Iowa College of Law, and thus the law school of the University of Iowa . From 1934 to 1940 he was the successor of Walter Albert Jessup 12th President of the University of Iowa. Despite the depression caused by the world economic crisis at the time , the university grew in size. In addition, several university buildings were built during the years of his presidency.

From 1940 to 1942 he was Dean of the School of Law at the University of Pittsburgh . After that he was again Professor of Law at the University of Iowa until his death.

In addition to his teaching activities, Gilmore was temporarily (1919 to 1920) President of the Association of Law Schools in the USA and a member of the Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology . At the same time he was a member of the Conference of Commissioners for the Unification of Law of the States .

Acting Governor General of the Philippines

In 1922, Gilmore was appointed Lieutenant Governor and Public Procurement Secretary for the Government of the Philippines. He held these offices until 1930.

After Leonard Wood's death on August 7, 1927, he became the incumbent governor general for the first time. On December 27, 1927, he handed the office of Governor General to Henry L. Stimson . When he gave up the office on February 23, 1929 to become foreign minister in the cabinet of US President Herbert Hoover , Gilmore took over the office of incumbent governor general for the second time. On July 8, 1929, he then passed the office to Dwight Filley Davis .

Publications

• "Handbook on the Law of Partnership", 1912
• "The Relation of Law and Economics", in: The Journal of Political Economy, volume 25, page 69, Chicago 1913
• "Some Criticisms of Legal Education", 1921
• "Modern American Law. A systematic and comprehensive comments on the Fundamental Principles of American Law “, (with William Charles Wermuth), Chicago 1931, 15 volumes

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• Biography on the University of Iowa home page