Eugene Allen Gilmore

Eugene Allen Gilmore (July 4, 1871 – November 4, 1953) was Vice Governor-General of the Philippine Islands from 1922-1929, serving twice as acting Governor-General of the Philippines in 1927 and again in 1929; the Dean of the College of Law at the University of Iowa from 1930 to 1934; the twelfth President of the University of Iowa from 1934 to 1940; and the law dean at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law from 1940 to 1942.

Biography

Gilmore was born in Brownville, Nebraska to Andrew Gilmore and Sarah Jane Allen Hall. He received his B.A. degree from DePauw University in 1893, and his LL.B. from Harvard in 1899. He married Blanche Bayse of Rockport, Indiana on December 27, 1899. After practicing law in Boston, Massachusetts from 1899 to 1902, Gilmore served as faculty at the University of Wisconsin Law School from 1902 to 1922. He was the Vice Governor-General of the Philippine Islands from 1922-1929. The author of a number of articles and pamphlets and several books dealing with law, Gilmore also wrote a law encyclopedia of 15 volumes called Modern American Law. His first child, Eugene A. Gilmore, Jr., was born in 1902; Elizabeth (later Elizabeth Gilmore Holt) in 1905, and John Andrew Gilmore in 1910.

Gilmore died of a heart attack at his home in Iowa City, Iowa on November 4, 1953.

Legacy

Gilmore Avenue, Quezon City, a major thoroughfare in the Metro Manila, is named after him, in turn lending its name to Gilmore LRT Station, a urban mass transit station located near the avenue.^[1] Gilmore Hall at the University of Iowa is named for him.

References

↑ "Historiles Resource". Light Rail Transit Authority.

External links

Works by or about Eugene Allen Gilmore at Internet Archive

Government offices
Preceded by Leonard Wood	Acting Governor-General of the Philippines 1927	Succeeded by Henry L. Stimson
Preceded by Henry L. Stimson	Acting Governor-General of the Philippines 1929–1930	Succeeded by Dwight F. Davis
Academic offices
Preceded by Walter Albert Jessup	President of the University of Iowa 1934–1940	Succeeded by Chester Arthur Phillips (acting) Virgil Melvin Hancher

American Governors-General of the Philippines

1898–1935

Military Government (1898–1902)	Merritt Otis MacArthur Chaffee

Insular Government (1901–1935)	Taft Wright Ide Smith Forbes Gilbert Harrison Yeater Wood Gilmore Stimson Gilmore Davis Butte Roosevelt Murphy

Smallcaps indicate military governors Italics indicate acting governors

Presidents of University of Iowa

Dean Totten Spencer Leonard Black Leonard Thacher Slagle Pickard Schaeffer Currier MacLean Bowman Macbride Jessup Gilmore Phillips Hancher Bowen Boyd Spriestersbach Freedman Remington Rawlings Nathan Coleman Boyd Skorton Fethke Mason Robillard Harreld

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 315534569 LCCN: nr96019541

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