Frank Fackenthal

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Frank Diehl Fackenthal CC 1906 served as chief clerk (1906-10), secretary (1910-37), Provost (1937-48), and acting president (1945-48) of the university. After a brief interlude at the Carnegie Corporation, he returned to serve as president of Columbia University Press, from 1953 to 1958.

See also

  • The Greater Power and Other Addresses (1949), a compilation of Fackenthal's speeches made during his time as acting president
Preceded by
Nicholas Murray Butler
President of Columbia University 
1945-1948
Succeeded by
Dwight D. Eisenhower