William Pratt Graham (November 24, 1871 – January 10, 1962) was an electrical engineering professor and the sixth chancellor of Syracuse University. Graham was the first alumnus of Syracuse as well as the first non-clergyman to hold that position.^[3][4][5]

Biography

Graham was born to Jerome Bonaparte Graham, a veteran of the Civil War, and Sylvia Aurelia Graham in Oswego, New York.^[1] Graham entered Syracuse University as an undergraduate in 1889 and graduated in 1893 before pursuing postgraduate work at the University of Berlin,^[6] graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy in 1897.^[1] He joined the faculty of Syracuse as an electrical engineering professor in 1898, after spending the intervening period studying the subject at Technische Universität Darmstadt,^[1] and he was made dean of the College of Applied Science in 1912.^[7][3][1] Graham served as the vice-chancellor to Charles Wesley Flint before succeeding him as chancellor in 1937, a position Graham intended to hold only until a successor was found.^[3][8][4] Graham retired from the university in 1942 when William Pearson Tolley was elected chancellor.^[9] He died in Syracuse, New York in 1962.^[6][5]

Bibliography

• "The Classics from the Standpoint of an Engineer". The Classical Weekly. 11 (13). Johns Hopkins University Press: 104. January 21, 1918. JSTOR 4387585.

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