Herbert S. Hadley

Herbert Spencer Hadley (February 20, 1872 – December 1, 1927) was an American lawyer and a Republican party politician from St. Louis, Missouri. Born in Olathe, Kansas, he was Missouri's Attorney General from 1905 to 1909 and was the Governor of Missouri from 1909 to 1913. As Attorney General, he successfully prosecuted Standard Oil Company for violating Missouri antitrust law.

Hadley attended the University of Kansas, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, and received his law degree from Northwestern University. He died in 1927 of heart disease in St Louis, Missouri, and is buried at the Riverview Cemetery in Jefferson City, Missouri.

Washington University

Hadley became the seventh Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis in 1923, a position he accepted while serving as a law professor at the University of Colorado. He was recruited for the position by Robert S. Brookings who helped establish the Graduate School of Economics and Government, which became part of the Brookings Institution in 1927. During his four years as chancellor, the University also founded the George Warren Brown Department of Social Work, which later became its own school within the university and one of the top-ranked social-work programs in the United States. As a law professor, he authored "Rome and the World Today" (Putnam, 1922).

External links

* [http://chancellorsroom.wustl.edu/hadley.htm Biographical entry] at Washington University in Saint Louis

ource

* "Herbert Spencer Hadley."Dictionary of American Biography Base Set. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928-1936. Reproduced in History Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group. http://0-galenet.galegroup.com.iii.slcl.org:80/servlet/HistRC/