Hugh Calkins

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Hugh Calkins (born 1924) was a member of the Harvard Corporation from 1969 to 1984.

He was born in Newton, Ohio in 1924, and he went to Exeter before coming to Harvard. As an undergraduate, he served briefly as president of the Harvard Crimson in 1942. He graduated magna cum laude in the now-defunct field of mechanical engineering, and joined the United States Air Force and served until 1946. At Harvard Law School, he was president of the Law Review, and graduated with enough honors in 1949 to win a job as clerk to Learned Hand, then the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. A year later, Calkins stepped up to the Supreme Court of the United States and clerked for Justice Felix Frankfurter.

In 1951, Calkins moved to Cleveland, where he made a name for himself. He was elected to the Corporation in 1968, on the basis of work he had done setting long-term goals for the government. His efforts landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents.

After announcing his resignation in 1984, Calkins was succeeded by Henry Rosovsky.