Background
Smith, Elliott Dunlap was born on January 23, 1891 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Dunlap and Harriet (Flower) Smith.
Smith, Elliott Dunlap was born on January 23, 1891 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Dunlap and Harriet (Flower) Smith.
AB, Harvard University, 1913. Bachelor of Laws, Harvard University, 1916. AM (honorary), Yale University, 1928.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Washington and Jefferson College, 1949.
Practice law, Chicago, 1916. With Council National Defense, becoming chief organization field division, 1917-1918. Director investigations, United States Tariff Commission, 1919.
Personnel manager and division manager Dennison Manufacturing Company, Framingham, Massachusetts, 1919-1928. Lecturer social ethics, Harvard, 1926, 27. Professor economics, Yale University, 1928-1946, chairman department economics, 1939-1945, director committee preparation for War Service, 1942-1943, master Saybrook College, 1932-1946.
Provost and Falk professor social relations Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1946-1958, then emeritus. Overseer Harvard University, 1951-1957. Navy College Curriculum consultant (United States Navy), 1942-1946.
Consultant Wider City Parish, New Haven, from 1963.
Member advisory committee industrial relations National Industrial Conference Board, 1936-1946. Trustee Sarah Lawrence College, 1935-1943, then from 1960, chairman 1935-1939. Board visitors United States Air University, 1946-1949.
Member Society Engineering Education.
Married Marie Francke, May 19, 1917. Children: Lucy Dunlap Smith Adams, Katherine Dunlap Smith Welch, Hugo Francke Dunlap.