Guy Stanton Ford (May 9, 1873 – December 29, 1962) was the sixth president of the

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. Ford had originally come to the University of Minnesota in 1913, serving as the dean of the Graduate School and as a professor of history. He became president in 1938 after the sudden death of Lotus Coffman. He left the University of Minnesota in November 1941 to become the executive secretary of the

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, and Editor of

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(until 1953). During the First World War, Ford served as the head of the

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's (CPI) division of Civic and Educational Publications. Ford's division oversaw the production of informational bulletins, sample speeches, and other rhetorical aids for use by the CPI's Four Minute Men, a corps of public speakers tasked with addressing audiences around the nation to bolster support for the American war effort. As an historian of European civilization, Ford also directed the publication of "histories" designed to contrast the positive values of American "progressivism" against the evils of German " Prussianism." Ford's doctoral thesis (

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, 1903) was entitled ''Hanover and Prussia, 1795–1803. A Study in Neutrality''. Before he went to the University of Minnesota, he was a faculty member of

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and the

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. He was also a member of the Literary Society of Washington and the

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. The annua
Guy Stanton Ford Memorial Lecture
is a

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by a distinguished scholar in any of many different fields.

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