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Frank LeRond McVey was born on November 10, 1869, in Wilmington, Ohio. He was the son of Alfred Henry and Anna Holmes McVey.
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Frank LeRond McVey was born on November 10, 1869, in Wilmington, Ohio. He was the son of Alfred Henry and Anna Holmes McVey.
McVey received his elementary education in Toledo, Ohio, where his father became attorney for a railroad, then attended high school in Des Moines, Iowa, where Alfred McVey had formed a law partnership.
In 1888, McVey entered Des Moines College, but the next year, he transferred to his father's alma mater, Ohio Wesleyan University. Receiving the A. B. in 1893, McVey entered the graduate school of Yale University, where he was greatly influenced by William Graham Sumner, John Schwab, and Arthur Hadley.
In 1899, he studied in England.
McVey became a high school principal and teacher at Orient, Iowa. This experience convinced McVey that he should make teaching his life-work. The following year he returned to Ohio Wesleyan. He was originally interested in history but decided to major in economics after John Bascom gave a series of lectures at the school.
He compiled an excellent academic record and edited the school newspaper and annual. After taking the Ph. D. in 1895, McVey taught at the Horace Mann School of Teachers College, Columbia University, for a year and wrote pamphlets for the Reform Club, advocating sound money and a modified tariff.
In 1896, McVey became an instructor in economics at the University of Minnesota and published his doctoral dissertation, The Populist Movement. By 1898, he was an assistant professor and had published Minnesota: State, County, Township, and City.
Promoted to full professor in 1900, the following year he published The Government of Minnesota; Its History and Administration. His Modern Industrialism appeared in 1904. In 1907 McVey left the university to become the first chairman of the Minnesota Tax Commission. This agency's reforms in the taxing of minerals were widely copied by other states. He also edited the first two volumes of Papers and Proceedings of the Minnesota Academy of Social Sciences.
McVey accepted the presidency of the University of North Dakota in 1909. There he launched a Quarterly Journal to encourage faculty research and writing and set an example by publishingRailroad Transportation in 1910, The Making of a Town in 1913, and Economics of Business in 1917. He also became editor of the National Social Science Series, a project he guided through twenty-five volumes. During his tenure at North Dakota, sabbatical leaves were granted for the first time, administrative practices were reformed, and a budget system was adopted.
In 1917, McVey became president of the University of Kentucky. Again he took a school that was a university only in name and made it a university, in fact, adding colleges of commerce and education, a division of university extension, and a graduate school. He organized a research club and brought to the campus the first chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in Kentucky.
His Financial History of Great Britain, 1914-1918 was published in 1918. Within a few years after McVey's arrival at the University of Kentucky, the school had to meet a serious threat to academic freedom. Pressed by fundamentalists, two members of the Kentucky General Assembly introduced bills in January 1922, three years before the Scopes trial in Tennessee, making it unlawful to teach evolution, Darwinism, atheism, or agnosticism in the schools of the state.
McVey went before the General Assembly to explain the dangers of such legislation, while William Jennings Bryan came to Kentucky to speak on its behalf. One bill died in committee, and the other was defeated in the House of Representatives by one vote. But for the courage of Frank McVey, it undoubtedly would have passed.
During his twenty-three years at Kentucky, McVey also served as president of the National Association of State Universities, the Association of Land Grant Colleges and Universities, the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, and the Southeastern Athletic Conference. At the time of his retirement in 1940, he had been a state university president longer than any of his contemporaries. Retirement did not mean a cessation of work for McVey.
In 1943, he and his second wife, Frances Jewell, dean of women at the University of Kentucky, spent several months in South America advising the government of Venezuela upon the rebuilding and reorganization of its Central University.
He made the last entry in the twenty-three-volume diary that he had begun in 1930 on November 16, 1952, seven weeks before his death in Lexington, Kentucky.
Frank LeRond McVey most commonly known as the third president of the University of Kentucky, during the period of 1917 until his retirement in 1940. He was also an editorial writer for the New York Times and one-time president of the University of North Dakota. McVey Hall on the University of Kentucky campus was named in his honor.
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On September 21, 1898, McVey married Mabel Moore Sawyer of Minneapolis; they had three children. His second wife was Frances Jewell, whom he married on November 24, 1923.
28 April 1843 - 25 May 1918
17 January 1843 - 11 September 1931
25 March 1873 - 7 March 1947
27 August 1871 - 2 February 1974
17 April 1882 - 13 November 1961
14 October 1878 - 12 December 1955
23 December 1889 - 13 June 1945
1875 - 1922
23 February 1903 - April 1989
29 September 1906 - 4 October 2001
13 December 1904 - 16 April 1973
