About: Walter F. Dexter

An Entity of Type: animal, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Walter Friar Dexter (November 21, 1886 – October 21, 1945) was an American educator and politician. He was born November 21, 1886, in Chicago. He served as president of Whittier College from 1923 to 1934. He was the author of Herbert Hoover's 1932 campaign biography. After a stint as secretary to Governor Frank Merriam, he became California State Superintendent of Public Instruction, a position he held until his death. He also was the President of Lions Club International from 1938 to 1939. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) degree from Whittier College in 1934.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Walter Friar Dexter (November 21, 1886 – October 21, 1945) was an American educator and politician. He was born November 21, 1886, in Chicago. He served as president of Whittier College from 1923 to 1934. He was the author of Herbert Hoover's 1932 campaign biography. After a stint as secretary to Governor Frank Merriam, he became California State Superintendent of Public Instruction, a position he held until his death. He also was the President of Lions Club International from 1938 to 1939. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) degree from Whittier College in 1934. A middle school in Whittier, California is named for him, as were the Student Center at Whittier College and Cal Poly's first library. In Spring of 1945, Dexter was asked to run for Congress but declined. Depending on source he may have recommended former Whittier student Richard Nixon to run for the seat, or Nixon may have been a second choice without his recommendation. (en)
dbo:country
dbo:nationality
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 30635362 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 3557 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1118466294 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:title
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dbp:years
  • 1923 (xsd:integer)
  • 0001-02-01 (xsd:gMonthDay)
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
schema:sameAs
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Walter Friar Dexter (November 21, 1886 – October 21, 1945) was an American educator and politician. He was born November 21, 1886, in Chicago. He served as president of Whittier College from 1923 to 1934. He was the author of Herbert Hoover's 1932 campaign biography. After a stint as secretary to Governor Frank Merriam, he became California State Superintendent of Public Instruction, a position he held until his death. He also was the President of Lions Club International from 1938 to 1939. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) degree from Whittier College in 1934. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Walter F. Dexter (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License