Alfred Hume

Alfred Hume (18661950) was the Chancellor of the University of Mississippi from 1924 to 1930, and from 1932 to 1935.[1]

Biography

He was born in Tennessee in 1866.[1] He received a PhD from Vanderbilt University.[1] He taught mathematics and astronomy at the University of Mississippi, until he served as its Chancellor from 1924 to 1930, and again from 1932 to 1935.[1] He prevented Governor Theodore G. Bilbo from moving Ole Miss to Jackson, Mississippi.[1]

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