| Alexander Heard AKA George Alexander Heard Born: 14-Mar-1917
Birthplace: Savannah, GA
Died: 24-Jul-2009
Location of death: Nashville, TN
Cause of death: Illness
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Educator Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, 1963-82 Military service: US Navy Reserve (1943-46) Father: Richard Willis Heard
Mother: Virginia Lord Nesbet
Wife: Laura Jean Keller ("Jean", m. 17-Jun-1949, until his death, three sons, one daughter)
Son: Stephen
Son: Christopher
Son: Frank
Daughter: Cornelia Heard
University: BA, University of North Carolina (1938)
University: MA, Columbia University (1948)
University: PhD, Columbia University (1951)
Professor: Political Science, University of North Carolina (1950-63)
Administrator: Dean, Graduate School, University of North Carolina
Administrator: Chancellor, Vanderbilt University (1963-82)
Ford Foundation Chairman (1972-88)
US State Department Vice Consul, and Asst., Economic Warfare Div., Quito (1941-43)
Member of the Board of Time, Inc.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Council on Foreign Relations
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Southern Political Science Association President (1961-62)
Author of books:
A Two-Party South? (1952)
Money and Politics (1956)
The Cost of Democracy (1960)
The Lost Years in Graduate Education (1963)
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