Alfred Hume

Alfred Hume was the Chancellor of the University of Mississippi from 1924 to 1930, and from 1932 to 1935.^[1]

Biography

He was born in Tennessee in 1866.^[1] He received a PhD from Vanderbilt University.^[1] He taught mathematics and astronomy at the University of Mississippi, until he served as its Chancellor from 1924 to 1930, and again from 1932 to 1935.^[1] He prevented Governor Theodore G. Bilbo from moving Ole Miss to Jackson, Mississippi.^[1]

Bibliography

Secondary sources

• Dr. Alfred Hume: his leadership as vice chancellor, acting chancellor, and chancellor of the University of Mississippi (1905-1945), Frances Egger Watson, Oxford, Mississippi: University of Mississippi Press, 1987

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