G. Alexander Heard

George Alexander Heard (born March 14, 1917, in Savannah, Georgia; d. July 24, 2009, in Nashville, Tennessee) was chancellor of Vanderbilt University from 1963 to 1982. He was also a political scientist and adviser to U.S. presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, and Richard Milhous Nixon.

In addition to his bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and master's degree and Ph.D. from Columbia University, all in political science, Heard received 27 honorary degrees, including degrees from Johns Hopkins University and Bard College. While a student at UNC, he became a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity and the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

Among his scholarly contributions, Heard in 1952 published A Two-Party South?, in which he predicted the transformation of the southern United States from one-party Democratic allegiance to two-party Democratic-Republican rivalry. At the time the Republican Party was virtually nonexistent in much of the South.

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