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Nicholas Murray Butler  

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  • One of the most publicly prominent leaders in higher education throughout U.S. history, Nicholas Murray Butler was best known as the forceful and innovative educator who served as president of Columbia University from 1902 to 1945. During that time, he was recognized as an institutional empire builder, a prolific writer, an eloquent public speaker, an active politician (Republican vice-presidential nominee in 1912, when Democrat Woodrow Wilson defeated Republican William Howard Taft and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt), an activist for international peace initiatives, and a Nobel Peace Prize awardee (shared with Jane Addams in 1931). [Source: Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent; Butler, Nicholas Murray]

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