biography
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| lived:
| (1875–1949)
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| biography:
| Physician, educator, and public official, born in Boonesboro, Iowa, USA. He studied at Stanford (BA, MA), went on to gain his MD (1899), and began practising medicine in San Francisco. From 1900 he was associated with Stanford for most of his career (with time out for government service) as a professor (1900–16), dean of the medical school (1911–16), and university president (1916–29). During World War 1 he assisted his former Stanford classmate and friend, Herbert Hoover, as administrator of food supplies, and he coined the slogan ‘food will win the war’ for the American war effort (1917). As a prominent Republican physician, he attended President Harding on his deathbed (1923). President Hoover appointed him secretary of the interior (1929–33), after which he returned to being president of Stanford (1933–43) and then its chancellor (1943–9). He is credited with making Stanford into a major university, establishing graduate and engineering schools. |
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