Daniel Orr

Background

Orr, Daniel was born on May 13, 1933 in New York City. Son of Robert Connell and Lillian (Nagle) Orr.

Education

He Graduated from Oberlin College in 1954. Later, he received a Doctor of Philosophy in economics and sociology from in 1960.

Career

He was a Princeton University Doctor of Philosophy, and the retired economics chair at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was a published author in the field of economics, especially in academic circles, and has worked for the United States Treasury Department. He became Trustee of Oberlin College in 1993.

Orr, an admirer of Adlai Stevenson in his younger days, became a staunch conservative and Republican for most of his years.

His teaching career began at Amherst College and moved to the University of Chicago Business School. In 1966, he moved to the newest campus of the University of California at San Diego to start building an economics department.

He became chair of the Economic Department for ten years. Then, in 1978, He moved to Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg as the department chairman

There he successfully assembled a top-rated economics faculty.

His last move was in 1989 to become chair of the economics department at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, from which he retired in 1999.

Achievements

• Daniel Orr has been listed as a noteworthy Educator, economist by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Property, markets, and government intervention: A textbook in microeconomic theory and its current applications

    (Book by Orr, Daniel)

  • Cash Management and the Demand for Money

Membership

Trustee Oberlin (Ohio) College, since 1993. Served with Army of the United States, 1958. Member American Economics Association, Crystal Downs Country Club.

Connections

Married Mary Lee Hayes, October 12,1957. Children— Rebecca, Matthew, Sara.

Father:

Robert Connell Orr

Mother:

Lillian (Nagle) Orr

Spouse:

Mary Lee Hayes