John Huston Finley
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1863 – 1940
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Who was John Huston Finley?
John Huston Finley was Professor of Polities at Princeton University from 1900 to 1903, and President of the City College of New York from 1903 until 1913, when he was appointed Commissioner of Education of the State of New York. A promenade along the western bank of the East River between 63rd Street and 125th Street in Manhattan was named the John Finley Walk in 1940 because he had often walked the perimeter of Manhattan.
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- Born
- Oct 19, 1863
Grand Ridge - Also known as
- John Finley
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Knox College
- Johns Hopkins University
- Ottawa High School
- Died
- Mar 7, 1940
New York City
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on July 23, 2013
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