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Alexander Grant Ruthven was born in 1882 in Hull, Iowa.
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Alexander Grant Ruthven was born in 1882 in Hull, Iowa.
He graduated from Morningside College in 1903. In 1906, he received a Doctor of Philosophy in zoology from the University of Michigan.
He worked as a professor, director of the University Museum, and Dean. He became the President in 1929. As such, he promoted a corporate administrative structure.
He also approved of police raids against bootleggers at fraternities.
He retired in 1951, and died in 1971. He is buried at Forest Hill Cemetery which is adjacent to the university.
The work of Ruthven on the familiar Garter Snakes, published in 1908, may be regarded as founding an essentially new school of herpetology in the United States. This was a revision of a genus, carried out by the examination of large numbers of specimens, and evaluated largely in geographic terms.
Ruthven attracted many students of reptiles to the University of Michigan, his most brilliant pupils being Frank North. Blanchard and Helen T. Gaige.
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