Fred Harvey Harrington (June 24, 1912 – April 8, 1995) was an American

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and the 17th President of the

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from 1962 to 1970.

Career

Born in Watertown, Harrington received his

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from

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(1933), and his

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(1934) and

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(1937), both from

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, where he also taught as an instructor during the 1936-1937 academic year. Upon graduating, he immediately took the post of Assistant Professor of History at the

. In 1940, Harrington moved to the

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as a full professor of history and political science, and had a brief spell as a visiting professor at

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in 1942. He earned a

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from 1943 to 1944. Harrington returned to Madison in 1947, and also chaired the history department from 1952 to 1955. Harrington held administrative posts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as Assistant to the President (1957), Vice President of Academic Affairs (1958), and then as VP of the university (1962). From 1962 until 1970, he served as President. He then served as a

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advisor in

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from 1971 to 1977, and then returned to the university to continue teaching. Harrington retired in 1982 and later died of a

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in Madison in 1995. In 2015, an endowed professorship was named after Harrington called the Fred Harvey Harrington Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Alfred W. McCoy Alfred "Al" William McCoy (born June 8, 1945) is an American historian and educator. He is the Fred Harvey Harrington Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.undergraduate Undergraduate education is education conducted after secondary education and before postgraduate education. It typically includes all postsecondary programs up to the level of a bachelor's degree. For example, in the United States, an entry-le ...

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in history is known as the Fred Harvey Harrington Prize.

Awards

*1986 - Association Indians in America Honor Award

References

External links

UWM profile
1912 births 1995 deaths People from Watertown, New York Cornell University alumni New York University alumni New York University faculty University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty University of Arkansas faculty West Virginia University faculty Leaders of the University of Wisconsin-Madison American expatriates in India 20th-century American academics {{US-edu-bio-stub

Career

Awards

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