Hamilton Holt
Hamilton Holt (August 18, 1872, Brooklyn, New York – April 26, 1951, Woodstock, Connecticut) was an American educator, editor, author and politician.
[edit] Editor
Graduated from Yale University in 1894 and completed graduate work in economics and sociology at Columbia University three years later.
Holt served as editor and published of the liberal weekly magazine the Independent from 1897 to 1921.
He was an outspoken advocate for reform, prohibition, immigrant rights, and international peace. In 1906 he published a collection of immigrants' life stories as The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans as Told by Themselves.
In 1909 Holt was a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
He served on the executive committee of the League to Enforce Peace.
In 1924 he unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate from Connecticut as a Democrat. He was soundly defeated by Hiram Bingham III, 60.4% to 38.6%.
[edit] President of Rollins College
In 1925, Holt became President of Rollins College and served in that capacity until 1949. He advocated a policy whereby the student body could approve or disapprove of faculty hirings. The Rollins College evening program is named in his Honor.
[edit] Sources
- Hamilton Holt (1872-1951): Eighth President of Rollins College
- New York Times: "Dr. Hamilton Holt, Educator, 78, Dies," April 27, 1951, accessed January 1, 2011
- Sondra R. Herman, Eleven Against War: Studies in American Internationalist Thought, 1898-1921 (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 1969)
- Warren F. Kuehl, Hamilton Holt: Journalist, Internationalist, Educator (Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1960)
