Heard, Alexander, 1917-2009

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Name (Latin)
Heard, Alexander, 1917-2009
Other forms of name
Heard, George Alexander, 1917-2009
Heard, Alexander
Heard, George Alexander
Date of birth
1917-03-14
Date of death
2009-07-24
Field of activity
Political science
United States--History
Occupation
Historians
Political scientists
Gender
male
Biographical or Historical Data
b. 1917
A.B., M.A.
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 61635850
Wikidata: Q5512121
Library of congress: n 50063415
Sources of Information
  • Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02(b. 1917; A.B., M.A.)
  • Washington post WWW site, July 27, 2009(Alexander Heard; b. George Alexander Heard, Mar. 14, 1917, Savannah, Ga.; d. July 24 [2009], Nashville; chancellor of Vanderbilt Univ. for nearly 20 yrs.; scholar of the U.S. election process and the American presidency)
  • Wikipedia website, viewed March 7, 2014 :G. Alexander Heard page (George Alexander Heard ... chancellor of Vanderbilt University from 1963 to 1982. He was also a political scientist and adviser to U.S. presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, and Richard Milhous Nixon ... In addition to his bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and master's degree and Ph.D. from Columbia University, all in political science, Heard received 27 honorary degrees, including degrees from Johns Hopkins University and Bard College)
  • His Southern primaries and elections, 1920-1949, 1950.