1930's Education | Frank, Glenn 1887-194O

UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT, POLITICIAN

A Varied Life.

Evangelical preacher, philanthropist, journalist, college president, politician: Glenn Frank had many careers during his short life, and he excelled at each. A colorful, affable, and intelligent man, Frank was one of the leading college presidents and educational reformers in the United States during the 1930s. A moderate conservative who called himself a liberal, Frank proposed modest programs for educational reform at a time of radical alternatives. He successfully held to the center and then became one of the most articulate conservative critics of the New Deal, becoming for a time a figure who was proposed by many for the presidency of the United States.

Background.

Frank was born in Queen City, Missouri, on 1 October 1887, and he grew up in nearby Green Top, a small agricultural community where almost everyone was white, Anglo-Saxon, and Protestant. Frank...