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Claude Burton Hutchison (1885-1980) was a botanist, agricultural economist, educator, and Mayor of the City of Berkeley, California from 1955 to 1963. Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern California, in the United States. ...
Hutchison was born on April 9, 1885 in Chillicothe, Missouri, the son of farmer William Moses Hutchison and his wife Ada Smith. He married his wife Roxie in 1908. They had several children. Chillicothe is a city located in Livingston County, Missouri. ...
Hutchison was educated at the University of Missouri where he was also a founding member of the FarmHouse fraternity. He held teaching positions at the University of Missouri and Cornell University. At Cornell he taught genetics to Barbara McClintock. Hutchison left Cornell for the University of California, Davis where he was Professor of Agriculture from 1922 to 1952; Dean of the College of Agriculture from 1922 to 1925; and Vice President, University of California (system wide) from 1945 to 1952. When he left UC Davis he served as Dean of Agriculture at the University of Nevada until his retirement in 1954. From 1955 to 1963 he served as mayor of Berkeley, California. The University of Missouri–Columbia is a public land-grant university and is Missouris largest university and public research institution. ...
FarmHouse Fraternity is an all-male international social fraternity founded at the University of Missouri in 1905. ...
The University of Missouri–Columbia is a public land-grant university and is Missouris largest university and public research institution. ...
Cornell University is a private university located in Ithaca, New York, USA. Its two medical campuses are in New York City and Education City, Qatar. ...
Barbara McClintock (June 16, 1902 – September 2, 1992) was a pioneering American scientist and one of the worlds most distinguished cytogeneticists. ...
The University of California, Davis, commonly known as UC Davis, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, and was established as the University Farm in 1905. ...
1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar). ...
The phrase University of Nevada by itself usually refers to the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), because that was the name by which it was known from the time of its founding in 1874 until its name was changed to University of Nevada, Reno in 1969, at the same time...
1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern California, in the United States. ...
In the 1920s, Hutchison went to Europe, serving as Director of Agricultural Education for the International Education Board in Paris. In the 1930s he was a director of the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics. 1928 Time cover featuring Giannini Amadeo Peter Giannini (1870-1949), born in San Jose, California, was the founder of the Bank of America. ...
Hutchison Hall on the campus of the University of California at Davis is named for him. The University of California, Davis, popularly known as UC Davis, is one of the ten University of California campuses. ...
Hutchison died August 25, 1980 at the age of 95.
His son Claude B. Hutchison Jr., a retired U.S. Navy Captain, ran and lost against Congressman Ron Dellums in the 1980s. In November of 2006, he was an appointee of the Bush Administration serving in the Department of Veterans Affairs. Ronald Vernie (Ron) Dellums (born November 24, 1935), U.S. Democratic Party politician, is the mayor of the City of Oakland, California. ...
The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is a Cabinet department of the United States government responsible for administering programs of veterans benefits for veterans, their families, and survivors. ...
References
- US Census, New York, Tompkins County, 1920
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