Henry Suzzallo
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Henry Suzzallo (born August 22, 1875 in San Jose, California; died September 25, 1933 in Seattle, Washington) was president of the University of Washington from 1915 to 1926. He later served as director of the National Advisory Committee on Education and president of the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching.
He was of Croatian descent, born just after his parents' emigration from Dalmatia. He graduated from Stanford University in 1899, and went to Columbia University for graduate school, where he got his master's degree in 1902 and his Ph.D. in 1905. He was deputy superintendent of city schools in San Francisco, professor of education at Stanford, and professor of educational sociology at Columbia, before becoming president of the UW.
Suzzallo Library, the University of Washington's central library, is named in honor of him.
External links
- Henry Suzzallo (http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcoll/uarchives/presidents/suzzallo.html)