Francis Patrick Garvan

Francis Patrick Garvan (June 13, 1875 – November 7, 1937) was an American lawyer and long-time president of the Chemical Foundation. The American Chemical Society awarded him its highest honor, the Priestley Medal, in 1929. Garvan established what is now known as the American Chemical Society's Francis P. Garvan - John M. Olin Medal to "recognize distinguished service to chemistry by women chemists" in 1936.

He was born June 13, 1875 in East Hartford, Connecticut.

Garvan graduated from Yale University in 1897 (A.B.) and from New York Law School in 1899 (LL.B.). He had a distinguished career as a lawyer, and served as: an Assistant District Attorney in New York City (from 1900 to 1910); Alien Property Custodian (the official who seized and managed enemy property in the United States during and after World War I including, notably, patents and other assets of the German dye and chemical industries); a director of the New York office of the U.S. Bureau of Investigation; an Assistant United States Attorney General; and Dean of the Fordham University School of Law (from 1919 to 1923). He was also a trustee of The Catholic University of America and was himself a Roman Catholic.