Jess H. Davis
| Jess Harrison Davis | |
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| 4th President of Stevens Institute of Technology |
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In office 1951–1971 |
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| Preceded by | Harvey N. Davis |
| Succeeded by | Kenneth C. Rogers |
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July 29, 1906 Columbus, Ohio |
| Died | September 17, 1971 (aged 65) Charlottesville, Virginia |
| Alma mater | Ohio State University |
Jess Harrison Davis (July 29, 1906 – September 17, 1971) was the 4th President of Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey.
Davis was born in Columbus, Ohio on July 29, 1906 to Willard Ellsworth and Winifred Jones-Davis. He married Dorothy Carrigan in 1928 and together they had one daughter, Sarah Louise. Davis obtained his Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Ohio State University in 1928 and his Master's in 1933. He went on to St. Lawrence University where he received his Doctor of Science, adding a Doctor of Engineering from Clarkson College of Technology in 1951.
He began his career as student engineer and assistant to maintenance superintendent at Ohio Bell Telephone Company. He left after just two years to fill a position of Mechanical Engineer at the Atmospheric Nitrogen Corporation in Hopewell, Virginia. Davis entered academia in 1929 as instructor of Mechanical Engineering at Clarkson College in Potsdam, New York and Department of Mechanical Engineering head at the University of Louisville's Speed Scientific School. He moved up to Dean of Administration and eventually acting President and President by 1948.
Davis H. Davis also refined his technical and leadership skills as Director of Devenco, Inc., Commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and Hackensack Meadowlands Commission, Director of Philip Morris Inc., President of the New York State Association of Engineering Colleges in 1950, Chairman of the Education Committee of the Engineers' Council for Professional Development in Region I, and chairman of the celebration for the seventy-fifth anniversary of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He was also a licensed Professional Engineer in New York, New Jersey and Kentucky.
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