Alfred Benjamin Butts Explained

Alfred Benjamin Butts (1890 – 1962) was an American political scientist and university administrator. He served as the Chancellor of the University of Mississippi from 1935 to 1946.^{[1] [2]}

Early life

Alfred Benjamin Butts was born in 1890 in Durham, North Carolina.^{[1] [2]} In 1911, he received a B.S. degree from Mississippi A&M College, now known as Mississippi State University, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1920.^{[1] [2]} He received a law degree from Yale Law School in 1930.^{[1] [2]}

Career

From 1911 to 1935, he taught at Mississippi A&M.<ref name="authors"/> He served as Chancellor of the University of Mississippi from 1935 to 1946.^{[1] [2]} He served as the president of the Southern Political Science Association (SPSA) in 1938.^[3]

Death

He died in 1962.^[2]

Bibliography

• Public administration in Mississippi (1919)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ole Miss biography . 2010-07-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100531203533/http://www.olemiss.edu/info/chan/BUTTS.html . 2010-05-31 . dead .
2. James B. Lloyd, Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967, Oxford, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2009, p. 67 https://books.google.com/books?id=RfXGJBB1HvoC&amp;pg=PA67
3. Web site: Past Presidents . SPSA: Southern Political Science Association. 18 August 2015.