Edwin Alderman
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Edwin Anderson Alderman (born May 15, 1861 in Wilmington, North Carolina; died April 30, 1931 in Connellsville, Pennsylvania) served as the President of three universities. Edwin A. Alderman Elementary School is named after him.
Alderman graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 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 North Carolina-Chapel Hill; 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 spent two-thirds of his long term at the University of Virginia physically disabled after a bad bout with tuberculosis.[1]
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.
[edit] Academic Career
- 1896-1900 – President of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
- 1900-1904 – President of Tulane University (New Orleans, Louisiana)
- 1904-1931 – President of the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, Virginia)
[edit] References
- ^ Hail to the Chiefs http://www.virginia.edu/insideuva/2005/08/chiefs.html. URL retrieved June 23, 2006.
[edit] Sources
- American National Biography, vol. 1, pp. 242-243.
- Dumas Malone, Edwin A. Alderman: A Biography (1940).
| Preceded by George Tayloe Winston |
President of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1896–1900 |
Succeeded by Francis Preston Venable |
| Preceded by William Oscar Rogers (acting) |
President of Tulane University 1900–1904 |
Succeeded by Edwin Boone Craighead |
| Preceded by Board of Visitors |
President of the University of Virginia 1904–1931 |
Succeeded by John Lloyd Newcomb |
