Henry Merritt Wriston

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Henry Merritt Wriston (July 4, 1889–1978) was a United States educator and served as president at both Brown University and Lawrence University.

Wriston was born in Laramie, Wyoming, the son of a Methodist minister and a schoolteacher. He received his B.A. in 1911 from Wesleyan University, and returned there for his M.A. He earned his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University.

He served as the eighth president of Lawrence University from 1925 to 1937. His term was marked by the improvement of the curriculum, faculty, and library collections. Before leaving the school, he wrote the book The Nature of a Liberal Arts College.

He served as President of Brown University between 1937 and 1955.

He served as President of the Council on Foreign Relations between 1951 and 1964. He also served as President of the American Assembly until 1963, and served on the Board of Trustees of the World Peace Foundation. In 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Wriston to the Chairmanship of the President's Commission on National Goals. Wriston was also an adviser to President Eisenhower, a member of the United States Department of State's Advisory Committee on Foreign Service, and Chairman of the Historical Advisory Committee to the Chief of Military History for the United States Department of the Army.

He is the father of Walter B. Wriston, former chairman and CEO of Citibank.

[edit] Works

• "Academic Procession." New York: New York University Press, 1959.
• "Challenge to Freedom," New York: Harper, 1943.
• "Character in Action." Providence: Brown University Press, 1941.
• "College Students and the War" Washington D.C.: The National Policy Committee, 1940.
• "Cuba and the United States: long range perspectives" Washington: Brookings Institution, 1967.
• "Diplomacy in a Democracy," New York: Harper, 1956.
• "Education for Democracy." Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1940.
• "Executive Agents in American foreign relations." Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1929.
• "How to Achieve the Inevitable." Providence: Brown University Press, 1943.
• "The Nature of a Liberal Arts College," Appleton, Wisconsin: Lawrence College Press, 1937.
• "Policy Perspectives," Providence: Brown University Press, 1964.
• "Prepare for Peace!" New York: Harper, 1941.
• "Strategy of Peace" Boston: World Peace Organization, 1944.
• "Voices of America" Stamford, Connecticut. Overbrook Press, 1953.
• "Washington's Foreign Policy as a Guide for Today." Middletown Connecticut: Press of Pelton & King, 1925.
• "Wriston speaking: A selection of addresses." Providence: Brown University Press, 1957.

[edit] See also

• Ivy League Presidents

[edit] External links

• Lawrence University
• Brown University
• Lawrence's Portrait of Henry Merritt Wriston
• Short bio of Wriston from Brown University
• The American Assembly
• A collection of writings and speeches given by Henry Merritt Wriston

Preceded by Samuel G. Plantz	President of Lawrence University 1925–1937	Succeeded by Thomas Nichols Barrows
Preceded by Clarence Augustus Barbour	President of Brown University 1937–1955	Succeeded by Barnaby Conrad Keeney

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