Background
III, James Phinney Baxter, was born on February 15, 1893 in Portland, Maine, United States. Son of James Phinney Junior and Nelly Furbish (Carpenter) B.
III, James Phinney Baxter, was born on February 15, 1893 in Portland, Maine, United States. Son of James Phinney Junior and Nelly Furbish (Carpenter) B.
AB, Williams College, 1914. AM, Williams College, 1921. AM, Harvard University, 1923.
Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1926. Doctor of Laws, Harvard and Amherst, 1938. Doctor of Laws, University Maine and Wesleyan University, 1939.
Doctor of Laws, Hobart College, 1942., Bowdoin College, 1944. Doctor of Letters, Syracuse University, 1945.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Case Institute of Technology, 1948. Doctor of Humane Letters, American International College, 1954. Doctor of Laws, Williams College, 1947.
Doctor of Laws, Kenyon College, 1949. Doctor of Laws, Columbia University, 1954. Doctor of Laws, Brown University, 1956.
Doctor of Laws, University Rochester, 1960. Doctor of Science, Union College, 1949.
With, Industrial Finance Corporation, New York City, 1914-1915; instructor history, Colorado College, 1921-1922; Harvard traveling fellow, 1924-1925; instructor history, Harvard University, 1925-1927; assistant professor, Harvard University, 1927-1931; associate professor, Harvard University, 1931-1936; professor, Harvard University, 1936-1937; master, Adams House, 1931-1937; president, Williams College, 1937-1961; president emeritus, Williams College, from 1961. Educational adviser United States Military Academy. Lecturer Lowell Institute, Naval War College, Cambridge U.
Member of the board overseers Harvard University. Trustee Williams College, 1934-1937. Term trustee Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1956-1961.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, Council Foreign Rels. Member American Council Education, American History Association, American Antiquarian Society, American Society International Law, American Political Science Association, others
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Married Anne Holden Strang, June 21, 1919 (deceased May 1962). Children: James Phinney IV, Arthur Brown, Stephen Bartow.