John H. Finley

John Huston Finley (born October 19, 1863 in Grand Ridge , † March 7, 1940 in New York City ) was an American political scientist .

Life

He was born on October 19, 1863 in Grand Ridge, Illinois, to the eldest son of James Gibson Finley and Lydia Margaret McCombs. His father and mother went to the prairies from the east as early settlers. His father was the great-grandson of Reverend James Finley, the first minister believed to have settled permanently outside the Allegheny Mountains of western Pennsylvania , and the brother of Dr. Samuel Finley, President of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in the mid- 18th century . His brother, Robert, who died in his early thirties, was the co-editor of the Review of Reviews . His sister Bertha died as a missionary in Korea.

Finley was educated in Grand Ridge Public Schools, Ottawa Township High School and Knox College , where he received AB and AM degrees. He then began postgraduate studies at Johns Hopkins University . He was the winner of his class at Knox and won the Interstate Oratorio Prize in 1887. He was made an honorary member of the northwest chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. He was secretary of the Illinois State Charities Aid Association from 1889 to 1892 and president of Knox College from 1892 to 1899. Last year he went to New York, but after a year in the editorial office of the Harpers and McClure's publishers returned to teaching at the invitation of a newly established chair at Princeton University . He was Professor of Political Affairs at Princeton from 1900 to 1903 and President of New York City College from 1903 to 1913 when he was appointed President of New York State University and New York State Commissioner for Education. From 1910 to 1911 he was an exchange professor at Harvard University for the Hyde Foundation at the Sorbonne in Paris . During World War I he headed the Red Cross Commission in Palestine .

Finley was named Associate Editor of the New York Times in 1921 . On April 21, 1937, the Times announced the appointment of Dr. Finley known as editor-in-chief. He held this position until November 16, 1938 when he accepted the title of editor-emeritus for health reasons. Finley was President of the American Geographical Society from 1925 to 1934 . There he remained honorary president until his death. His position in the Times brought him into contact with the great explorers and aviators of the time, who signed their names for him on a globe that he presented to the Society in 1929.

John H. Finley died in his sleep of a coronary embolism in New York City on the morning of March 7, 1940.

Fonts (selection)

• with John F. Sanderson: The American executive and executive methods . New York 1908.
• The French in the heart of America . New York 1915.
• A pilgrim in Palestine. Being an account of journeys on foot by the first American pilgrim after General Allenby's recovery of the Holy Land . New York 1919.
• Christianity and problems of today, lectures delivered before Lake Forest college on the foundation of the late William Bross . New York 1922.

literature

• The installation of John Huston Finley , New York 1903.
• Marvin Gettleman : An elusive presence. The discovery of John H. Finley and his America . Chicago 1979, ISBN 0-88229-312-5 .

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