Livingston Farrand
| Livingston Farrand | |
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| President of Cornell University | |
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In office 1921–1937 |
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| Preceded by | Jacob Gould Schurman |
| Succeeded by | Edmund Ezra Day |
| President of the University of Colorado |
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In office 1914–1919 |
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June 14, 1867 Newark, New Jersey |
| Died | November 8, 1939 (aged 72) Manhattan, New York |
| Alma mater | Princeton University (A.B.) Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons (M.D.) |
Livingston Farrand, M.D., LL.D. (June 14, 1867 – November 8, 1939) was an American physician, anthropologist, psychologist, public health advocate and academic administrator.
Born in Newark, New Jersey, Farrand received an undergraduate degree from Princeton in 1888, and went on to the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he earned his M.D. in 1891. He attended the Universities of Cambridge and Berlin. After graduating in 1893, he went on to serve as adjunct Professor of psychology at Columbia and after joining Franz Boas on expeditions to the Pacific Northwest (notably, the Jesup North Pacific Expedition) he became a full professor of anthropology in 1903, where he served until 1914.
He became executive secretary of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis in 1905 and then in 1914 became president of the University of Colorado, and held that position until 1919. From 1912 to 1914, he was treasurer of the American Public Health Association, during the same period editing the American Journal of Public Health. During World War I he was director in France of the International Health Board, 1917-19. His public health work led to his appointment as Chairman the Central Committee of the American Red Cross and he worked to fight tuberculosis for the Rockefeller Foundation in France in 1917.
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