Elvis Jacob Stahr, Jr.
Politician
1916 – 1998
Who was Elvis Jacob Stahr, Jr.?
Elvis Jacob Stahr Jr. was an American government official and college president and administrator. After graduating from the University of Kentucky in 1936 as a member of Sigma Chi and Pershing Rifles, he attended Merton College at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship. He served as lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II. He returned to the University of Kentucky and became a professor and then dean of the College of Law, before becoming president of West Virginia University. He served as the United States Secretary of the Army between 1961 and 1962 and served as president of Indiana University from 1962 to 1968. He was the president of the National Audubon Society from 1968 until 1981.
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- Born
- Mar 9, 1916
Hickman - Also known as
- Elvis Jacob Stahr
- Spouses
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Kentucky
- University of Oxford
- Merton College, Oxford
- Lived in
- Kentucky
- Died
- Nov 11, 1998
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on July 23, 2013
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