Edward Litchfield

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Edward Harold Litchfield (1914–1968) was the twelfth Chancellor (1956-1965) of the University of Pittsburgh.

He is best known for a major exof the university, but also a failure to raise sufficient capital to fund such growth, eventually leading to his resignation in July 1965.

He earned the B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. He taught political science at Brown University for a year, then from 1942 to 1945 taught public administration at the University of Michigan and also was Deputy Director of the Michigan State Civil Service Commission. In 1945 he worked in the United States Military Government in Germany, where he participated in the reconstruction of the occupied country. In 1953 he was appointed Dean of Cornell University's School of Business and Public Administration.

Litchfield was born April 14, 1914 in Detroit, Michigan. He died in a plane crash over Lake Michigan March 8, 1968.

Litchfield Towers, a set of three high-rise student residence halls on the University of Pittsburgh campus, are named in his honor.

Preceded by Rufus Fitzgerald

University of Pittsburgh Chancellor 1956 – 1965

Succeeded by Stanton Crawford

[edit] References

• Alberts, Robert C. (1987). Pitt: The Story of the University of Pittsburgh 1787-1987. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 0-8229-1150-7.