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Wallis, WIlson Allen was born on November 5, 1912 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Wilson Dallam and Grace Steele (Allen) Wallis.
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economist statistician university professor
Wallis, WIlson Allen was born on November 5, 1912 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Wilson Dallam and Grace Steele (Allen) Wallis.
Bachelor of Arts Minnesota, 1932. Postgraduate, University Minnesota, 1933. Postgraduate fellow, University Chicago, 1935.
Postgraduate fellow, Columbia University, 1936. Doctor of Science, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 1973. Doctor of Laws, Roberts Wesleyan College, 1973.
Doctor of Laws, University Rochester, 1984. Doctor of Humane Letters, Grove City College, 1975. Doctor of Social Sciences, Francisco Marroquin University, Guatemala, 1992.
The Kruskal–Wallis one-way analysis of variance is named after him and William Kruskal. After a year of graduate work at the University of Minnesota, he began studies at the University of Chicago in 1933, where he began what would prove to be lifelong friendships with Milton Friedman, Aaron Director and George Stigler. In 1936-1937, he served as an economist and statistician for the National Resources Committee.
During World World War II, Wallis was the director of research of the United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development"s Statistical Research Group (1942-1946).
He recruited a team of bright young economists, including Milton Friedman, to the Statistical Research Group. From 1948 to 1954, Wallis served as the treasurer of the Mont Pèlerin Society.
Wallis served as dean of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business from 1956 to 1962. During his time as dean he established the "Chicago Approach to Business Education," which involved the application of statistical methodology to business.
He became president of the University of Rochester in 1962, a position he held until 1970, when he became the University of Rochester"s chancellor and chief executive.
In 1975, he relinquished the job of chief executive, but remained chancellor of the university until his retirement in 1982. In December 1992, the University of Rochester named a joint program of its Departments of Economics and Political Science in honor of Wallis: the West. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy at the University of Rochester. He died in 1998 in Rochester, New New York
Under Eisenhower, he collaborated with Vice President Nixon on the report of the Cabinet Committee on Price Stability for Economic Growth (1959-1961).
Under Nixon and Ford, he served on the President"s Commission on Federal Statistics and on the Advisory Council on Social Security. Nixon also appointed Wallis as chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a post he held 1975-1978.
Under Reagan, he served as Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1982-1985), and then, after Congress changed the job description and title, as Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs (1985-1989).
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Trustee Tax Foundation, 1961-1982, Chairman of the Board, 1972-1975, chairman of the executive committee, 1975-1978. Board overseers Hoover Institution War, Revolution and Peace, 1972-1978. Trustee Eisenhower College, 1969-1979, National Opinion Research Center, 1957-1962, 64-68, Committee Economics Development, 1965-1971, Colgate Rochester Division School, 1963-1982, Center Governmental Research, Inc., 1962-1982, International Museum Photography atGeorge Eastman House, 1963-1982, Robert A. Taft Institute Government, 1973-1977, Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1980-1982, 89-.
Member Committee on the Present Danger, 1980-1982, 1989-1992. Chairman of the Board overseers Center Naval Analyses, 1967-1982. Fellow American Society Quality Control, Institute Mathematics Statistics, American Statistical Association (editor Journal 1950-1959, president 1965, Wilks medal 1980), American Academy Arts and Sciences.
Member American Economics Association (Executive Committee 1962-1964), Rochester Chamber of Commerce (trustee 1963-1968, 70-75), Mont Pelerin Society (treasurer 1949-1954), Washington Institute Foreign Affairs, Cosmos Club (Washington), Bohemian Club(San Francisco), Phi Beta Kappa, Chi Phi, Beta Gamma Sigma.
Married Anne Armstrong, October 5, 1935 (deceased October 1994). Children: Nancy Wallis Ingling, Virginia Wallis Cates.