O. Meredith Wilson

O. Meredith Wilson

Owen Meredith Wilson (September 21, 1909 – November 7, 1998) was a historian and academic administrator. He served as president of the University of Oregon from 1954 to 1960 and as president of the University of Minnesota from 1960 to 1967.

The son of Guy C. Wilson and Melissa Stevens, Wilson was born in Colonia Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, on September 21, 1909. His family was displaced by the Mexican Revolution a few years later and moved to a ranch near the Rio Grande. Wilson attended the University of Utah and Brigham Young University. He received a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1943. He taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Utah and researched colonial and revolutionary American history.[1]

Wilson became the ninth president of the University of Oregon in 1954. He was credited with intensifying tenure requirements and creating the Institute of Molecular Biology.[2] In 1960, he left Oregon to become the ninth president of the University of Minnesota. Wilson presided over much of the construction of the West Bank campus, though it had been planned previously. Wilson amended the plans, however, to include a major research library on the West Bank, which now is named in his honor. Wilson left the University of Minnesota in 1967 to become director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, at Stanford University.[3]

Wilson worked as chair of the American Council on Education and headed of the board of Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.[2]

Wilson died from brain cancer on November 7, 1998 at his home in Eugene, Oregon.

References

  1. ^ Smetanka, Mary Jane (1998-11-08). "O. Meredith Wilson, university president in the '60s, dies at 89". Star Tribune: p. B1. 
  2. ^ a b "O.M. Wilson, Former Leader of the University of Oregon". Seattle Post-Intelligencer: p. B3. 1998-11-10. 
  3. ^ "O. Meredith Wilson: University of Minnesota Office of the President". http://www1.umn.edu/pres/05_hist_wilson.html. Retrieved 2008-09-17. 
Preceded by
James Morrill
President of the University of Minnesota
1960 — 1967
Succeeded by
Malcolm Moos




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