Harry Pratt Judson

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Harry Pratt Judson (1849 - 1927) was a U.S. educator and historian, born at Jamestown, N. Y., and educated at Williams College (A.B., 1870; A.M., 1883). He taught in the Troy (N. Y.) High School in 1870-85 and was professor of history and lecturer on pedagogics at the University of Minnesota in 1885-92. At the University of Chicago he became professor of political science and head dean of the colleges in 1892 and head of the political science department and dean of the faculties of arts, literature, and science in 1894. He served as the acting president of the University of Chicago between 1906 and 1907 and as the president of the University of Chicago from 1907 until 1923.

Professor Judson became a member of the General Education Board in 1906 and of the Rockefeller Foundation in 1913. Besides editing a series of readers, he is author of:

• History of the Troy Citizens' Corps (1884)
• Cæsar's Army (1888)
• Europe in the Nineteenth Century (1894; third edition, revised, 1901)
• The Growth of the American Nation (1895; second edition, 1900)
• The Higher Education as a Training for Business (1896; second edition, 1911)
• The Government of Illinois (1900)
• The Essentials of a Written Constitution (1903)

Preceded by William Rainey Harper

President of the University of Chicago 1907—1923

Succeeded by Ernest DeWitt Burton

• This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.