Herbert S. Hadley

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Herbert Spencer Hadley (February 20, 1872– December 1, 1927) was an American lawyer and a Republican party politician from St. Louis, Missouri. Born in Olathe, Kansas, he was Missouri's Attorney General from 1905 to 1909 and was the Governor of Missouri from 1909 to 1913. As Attorney General, he successfully prosecuted Standard Oil Company for violating Missouri antitrust law.

Hadley became the seventh Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis in 1923, a position he accepted while serving as a law professor at the University of Colorado. During his four years as Chancellor, Washington University founded the George Warren Brown Department of Social Work, which later became its own school within the university and one of the top-ranked social-work programs in the United States. As a law professor, he authored Rome and the World Today (Putnam, 1922).

Hadley attended the University of Kansas, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, and received his law degree from Northwestern University. He died in 1927 of heart disease in St Louis, Missouri, and is buried at the Riverview Cemetery in Jefferson City, Missouri.

[edit] External link

Biographical entry at Washington University in Saint Louis

[edit] Source

"Herbert Spencer Hadley."Dictionary of American Biography Base Set. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928-1936. Reproduced in History Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group. http://0-galenet.galegroup.com.iii.slcl.org:80/servlet/HistRC/

Preceded by Joseph W. Folk	Governor of Missouri 1909–1913	Succeeded by Elliot Woolfolk Major
Preceded by Frederic Aldin Hall	Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis 1923–1927	Succeeded by George R. Throop