Robert M. Hutchins AKA Robert Maynard Hutchins Born: 17-Jan-1899 Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY Died: 17-May-1977 Location of death: Santa Barbara, CA Cause of death: Kidney failure Remains: Buried, Santa Barbara Cemetery, Santa Barbara, CA
Gender: Male Religion: Presbyterian Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Educator Nationality: United States Executive summary: President, University of Chicago, 1929-51 Military service: US Army (ambulance service, WWI) Wife: Maude Phelps McVeigh (m. 1921, div. 1948, three daughters) Daughter: Mary Frances Daughter: Joanna Daughter: Clarissa Wife: Vesta Sutton Orlick (m. 1949)
University: Oberlin College (attended 1915-17) University: BA, Yale University (1921) Law School: LLB, Yale Law School (1925) Professor: Yale Law School Administrator: Dean, Yale Law School (1927-29) Administrator: President, University of Chicago (1929-45) Administrator: Chancellor, University of Chicago (1945-51)
Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Founder (1959)
Author of books:
No Friendly Voice (1936) The Higher Learning in America (1936) Education for Freedom (1943) The University of Utopia (1953) The Learning Society (1968)
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