Harry Huntt Ransom (November 22, 1908 – April 19, 1976)Handbook of Texas Online, s.v., http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fra59 (accessed May 1, 2008). was a faculty member and administrator at the

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, becoming the university's president in 1960, and ultimately served as the chancellor of the

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from 1961 to 1971. Ransom was instrumental in founding the Humanities Research Center at the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public university, public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 stud ...

(which became the Harry Ransom Center in 1983). In 1978, at a cost of $2.4 million, the center acquired a complete copy of the

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. Ransom served on the National Commission for Libraries appointed by President

Lyndon B. Johnson Lyndon Baines Johnson (; August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States, serving from 1963 to 1969. He became president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, under whom he had served a ...

. Knight, Douglas N. and Nourse, E. Shepley; ''Libraries At Large: Tradition, Innovation, and the National Interest'', New York, R. R. Bowker, 1969. Harry ransom center 2012

Ransom was the only son of Harry Huntt and Marion Goodwin (Cunningham) Ransom. He was married in Galveston on August 11, 1951, to Hazel Louise Harrod. The couple had no children.

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A Guide to the Harry Huntt Ransom Papers, 1930-1990
1908 births 1976 deaths People from Galveston, Texas People from Hays County, Texas Presidents of the University of Texas at Austin Sewanee: The University of the South alumni Yale University alumni 20th-century American academics {{UTexas-stub