Chauncey Samuel Boucher (June 14, 1886 – August 13, 1955) was an American academic and historian. Boucher was born in

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, Illinois, the son of Chauncey Watson Boucher and Elizabeth Celstea Van Loon. He was a professor of history at the

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; president of

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; and chancellor of the University of Nebraska. He died at Petoskey, Emmet, Michigan in 1955, aged 69.

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