Alfred Benjamin Butts

Alfred Benjamin Butts was the Chancellor of the University of Mississippi from 1935 to 1946.[1][2]

Biography

He was born in Durham, North Carolina in 1890.[1][2] In 1911, he received a B.S. degree from Mississippi A&M College, now known as Mississippi State University, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1920.[1][2] He received a law degree from Yale Law School in 1930.[1][2] From 1911 to 1935, he taught at Mississippi A&M.[2] He served as Chancellor of the University of Mississippi from 1935 to 1946.[1][2] He died in 1962.[2]

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Ole Miss biography
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 James B. Lloyd, Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967, Oxford, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2009, p. 67