Harry Brookings Wallace

American academic administrator

Born(1877-08-06)August 6, 1877

DiedAugust 11, 1955(1955-08-11) (aged 78)

St. Louis, Missouri

Harry Brookings Wallace

Born	(1877-08-06)August 6, 1877 St. Louis, Missouri
Died	August 11, 1955(1955-08-11) (aged 78) St. Louis, Missouri
Burial place	Bellefontaine Cemetery
Education	Yale University
Occupations	Businessman, academic administrator
Relatives	Robert S. Brookings (uncle)
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Harry Brookings Wallace (August 6, 1877 – August 11, 1955) was the acting chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis from 1944 to 1945.

Harry Brookings Wallace was born in St. Louis on August 6, 1877.^[1] He attended Smith Academy in St. Louis, and graduated from Yale University in 1899. While there, he was a varsity baseball player.^[2]

He married Mary Kennard, daughter of St. Louis businessman and confederate soldier Samuel Kennard.

The nephew of Robert S. Brookings, he became a trustee of the Brookings Institution in 1927. He was president of Cupples & Marston from 1917 to 1942.^[2]

He was the acting chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis from July 1944 to September 1945.^[2]^[3]

He died at his home in St. Louis on August 11, 1955, and was buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery.^[2]

References

↑ The Book of St. Louisans: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men of the City of St. Louis and Vicinity. St. Louis republic. 1912. p. 618. Retrieved November 24, 2021 – via Internet Archive.
1 2 3 4 "Harry Brookings Wallace, Civic Leader, Dies at 78". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. August 12, 1955. pp. 1, 5A. Retrieved November 24, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
↑ "Harry Brookings Wallace Personal Papers (WUA00200), 1873-1985 WUA University Archives". St. Louis republic, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Archived from the original on February 21, 2016. Retrieved November 24, 2021.

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Washington University in St. Louis

Chancellors of Washington University in St. Louis

Joseph Gibson Hoyt (1858)
William Chauvenet (1863)
Abram Litton (1869)
William Greenleaf Eliot (1870)
Marshall Snow (1887)
Winfield Scott Chaplin (1891)
Marshall Snow (1907)
David F. Houston (1908)
Frederic Aldin Hall (1917)
Herbert S. Hadley (1923)
George R. Throop (1927)
Henry Brookings Wallace (1944)
Arthur Compton (1946)
Ethan A.H. Shepley (1954)
Carl Tolman (1961)
Thomas H. Eliot (1962)
William Henry Danforth (1971)
Mark S. Wrighton (1995)
Andrew D. Martin (2019)

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