Eugene Allen Gilmore

Eugene Allen Gilmore ( born July 4, 1871 in Brownsville, Nebraska, † November 4, 1953 in Iowa City ) was an American legal scholar, politician and Governor-General of the Philippines.

Studies and university teachers

Gilmore studied at DePauw University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1893. He then studied law at the Harvard Law School and graduated in 1899 with a Bachelor of Laws. After working as a lawyer in Boston, he was from 1902 to 1922 lecturer at the University of Wisconsin. From 1912 to 1913 he was there acting dean of the law faculty.

As Gilmore in 1930 returned from the Philippines, he was dean of Iowa College of Law, and thus the Faculty of Law University of Iowa. From 1934 to 1940 he was finally 12th president of the University of Iowa. Despite the depression due to the then world economic crisis, the University gained in size. In addition, several university buildings were built in the years of his presidency.

From 1940 to 1942 he was Dean of the Law School of the University of Pittsburgh. Then he was up to his death again professor of law at the University of Iowa.

In addition to teaching Gilmore was at times ( 1919-1920 ) President of the Association of Faculties of Law of the United States and a member of the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology. He was also a member of the Conference of the Commissioners for the unification of the law of the states.

Acting Governor-General of the Philippines

In 1922, Gilmore was appointed lieutenant governor and secretary for public procurement Gouvernementverwaltung the Philippines. These offices he held until 1930.

After the death of Leonard Wood on 7 August 1927, he was for the first time as acting Governor-General. On December 27, 1927, he handed the office of Governor-General to Henry L. Stimson. As this on February 23, 1929, the Office gave to the cabinet of U.S. President Herbert C. Hoover to become foreign minister, Gilmore took over for the second time the office of the incumbent Governor-General. On July 8, 1929, he handed then the Office of Dwight Filley Davis.

Publications

  • " Handbook on the Law of Partnership ', 1912
  • "The Relation of Law and Economics", in: The Journal of Political Economy, volume 25, page 69, Chicago 1913
  • "Some Criticisms of Legal Education", 1921
  • " Modern American Law. A systematic and comprehensive comments on the Fundamental Principles of the American Law ", (together with William Charles Wermuth ), Chicago 1931, 15 volumes

Swell

  • Biography on the website of the University of Iowa

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  • Governor (Philippines)
  • Americans
  • Born in 1871
  • Died in 1953
  • Man
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