Hamilton Holt
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Editing
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, author
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and politician
Politician
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.
Editor
Graduated from Yale UniversityYale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
in 1894 and completed graduate work in economics and sociology at Columbia University three years later.
Holt served as editor and published of the liberal weekly magazine the Independent
The Independent (Boston)
The Independent published in Boston, Massachusetts, was a weekly newspaper devoted to politics, social and economic tendencies, history, literature, and the arts. It was published from 1848 to 1928, when it merged with The Outlook....
from 1897 to 1921.
He was an outspoken advocate for reform, prohibition, immigrant rights, and international peace. In 1906 he published a collection of immigrants' life stories as The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans as Told by Themselves.
In 1909 Holt was a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, usually abbreviated as NAACP, is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909. Its mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to...
(NAACP).
He served on the executive committee of the League to Enforce Peace
League to Enforce Peace
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.
In 1924 he unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate from Connecticut as a Democrat
Democratic Party (United States)
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. He was soundly defeated by Hiram Bingham III
Hiram Bingham III
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, 60.4% to 38.6%.
President of Rollins College
In 1925, Holt became President of Rollins CollegeRollins College
Rollins College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Winter Park, Florida , along the shores of Lake Virginia....
and served in that capacity until 1949. He advocated a policy whereby the student body could approve or disapprove of faculty hirings. The Rollins College evening program is named in his Honor.
Sources
- Hamilton Holt (1872-1951): Eighth President of Rollins College
- New York Times: "Dr. Hamilton Holt, Educator, 78, Dies," April 27, 1951, accessed January 1, 2011
- Sondra R. Herman, Eleven Against War: Studies in American Internationalist Thought, 1898-1921 (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 1969)
- Warren F. Kuehl, Hamilton Holt: Journalist, Internationalist, Educator (Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1960)