David Carter Hardesty Jr. is an American lawyer and educator who was the 21st president of

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from 1995 to 2007. As an undergraduate student at West Virginia University, Hardesty was student body president, a member of

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, and a

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.''Grand Catalogue of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity - Twelfth Edition'', p.140: Bernard C. Harris Publishing Company, 1985. Hardesty earned a B.A. from

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in 1969 which was redesignated an M.A. in 1983.https://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/statutes/regulations/307-072.shtml > He received a J.D. from

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in 1973. and He was a partner with Bowles, Rice, McDavid, Graff & Love from 1973 to 1995, and served as the Tax Commissioner of West Virginia from 1977 to 1980. Hardesty then began his twelve-year tenure as president of WVU. He is currently president emeritus and professor of law at West Virginia University.

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*http://wvbarfoundation.org/fellows/ *http://wvutoday.wvu.edu/n/2010/1/11/wvu-announces-2010-david-c-hardesty-jr-festival-of-ideas-schedule Lawyers from Morgantown, West Virginia Presidents of West Virginia University West Virginia University alumni West Virginia University faculty Harvard Law School alumni American Rhodes Scholars Alumni of the Queen's College, Oxford 1946 births Living people {{US-law-bio-stub

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