About Dixon Ryan Fox
Lived 1887 – 1945 (aged 57). Dixon Ryan Fox was an American historian, university teacher and academic administrator.
Dixon Ryan Fox (December 7, 1887 – January 30, 1945) was an American educator, researcher, and president of Union College, New York from 1934 until his death in 1945.
Fox graduated from Columbia College in 1911.
He took his Ph.D. in history at Columbia University where he was influenced by James Harvey Robinson, Charles A. Beard and Herbert L. Osgood. He married Osgood's daughter and taught at Columbia from 1912 to the mid-1930s.
His academic work focused on social history and American social, political and economic elite and power structures, especially as they relate to immigration, ethnic conflict and national identity.
Dixon was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1935.
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Who was Dixon Ryan Fox?
American historian (1887–1945)
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Dixon Ryan Fox was born on 7 December 1887 in Potsdam.
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Dixon Ryan Fox died on 30 January 1945 in New York (state), Schenectady.
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Dixon Ryan Fox was a historian, university teacher and academic administrator.
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Dixon Ryan Fox was American.
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