James Alfred Perkins
Male, Deceased Person
1911 – 1998
Who was James Alfred Perkins?
James A. Perkins was the seventh president of Cornell University. Born in 1911 in Philadelphia, Perkins graduated with high honors in 1934 from Swarthmore College and received a doctorate in political science from Princeton University in 1937. At Swarthmore, Perkins joined the Delta Upsilon Fraternity and played varsity football alongside his classmate, DU brother and future 1972 Nobel Prize laureate Christian B. Anfinsen.
After leaving Cornell, he founded the International Council for Educational Development in Princeton, New Jersey, an organization to identify and analyze key problems facing education around the world. He is a former member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group.
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- Born
- Oct 11, 1911
Philadelphia - Also known as
- James Perkins
- Education
- Swarthmore College
- Princeton University
- Employment
- Cornell University
- Died
- 1998
Burlington
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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