Fred Dow Fagg Jr. (1896 – October 14, 1981)
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between 1947 and 1957.

Biography

Fagg attended the

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, where he was a founding member of Kappa Sigma Sigma. During

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he became a pursuit pilot in the U.S. Air Service, based in England with the 92d Aero Squadron. Fagg received a law degree in 1927 from

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and later taught there. He was the fourth dean of Kellogg School of Management, from 1937 to 1939. He was also the second of three directors of the short-lived Bureau of Air Commerce in the

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, from March 1937 to April 1938. Fagg's son, Fred D. Fagg III, was dean of the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark (unaffiliated with Northwestern University, now

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References

History of USCFred D. Fagg, Jr. Papers, Northwestern University Archives, Evanston, Illinois

External links

Fred Dow Fagg, Jr. Papers, Northwestern University Archives, Evanston, Illinois
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