Robert Livingston Johnson
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Robert Livingston Johnson (March 25, 1894 – January 16, 1966) was Temple University's third president (1941 to 1959)[1] and a former vice president of Time Inc.[2]
Johnson was born in New York City to Frank R. and Grace Bell Johnson.[3] He attended Norwalk Academy and the Taft School from 1910 to 1914. He attended Yale University until the declaration of war in 1917. He married Anna Talcot Rathbone before leaving for World War I with the First Infantry Division.[4] He was stationed in France as a Lieutenant with the Seventh Field Artillery. He was on the front for four months before being reassigned as an instructor for new troops.[5]
Business career
After the war, he partnered with Henry Luce, Briton Hadden, and another Yale classmate to form Time, Inc. He served as vice president and advertising director for the upstart company. He took time off from the company to serve as relief administrator For Pennsylvania during the depression. He was later elected president of the National Civil Service Reform League. He left Time in 1938 to form his own management consultant and market analysis firm.[5]
