Preceded by David P. Gardner Preceded by Daniel Aldrich | Name Jack Peltason Succeeded by Richard C. Atkinson | |
Born August 29, 1923
St. Louis, Missouri, United States ( 1923-08-29 ) Alma mater University of Missouri
Princeton University Profession University administrator, professor Died March 21, 2015, Irvine, California, United States Education University of Missouri, Princeton University Books Fifty‑eight Lonely Men: Sou, Government by the People: N, Federal Courts in the Politic, Government by the People: P, Government by the People N Similar People Thomas Cronin, David Magleby, Paul Charles Light, James MacGregor Burns, Edward Samuel Corwin | ||
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Jack W. Peltason (August 29, 1923 – March 21, 2015) was the president of the University of California, and former chancellor of the University of California, Irvine. He died of Parkinson's disease in 2015.
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Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Peltason was a member of the Smith College faculty from 1947-1951 and then joined the University of Illinois-Urbana faculty. He became dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in 1960. In 1964, he left Illinois to become vice president of academic affairs at the University of California, Irvine. In 1967, he returned to Illinois to become the first chancellor of the Urbana campus and stayed there until 1977 when he returned to Irvine.
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