Ralph Brown Draughon

Ralph Brown Draughon (September 1, 1899 – August 13, 1968) was the President of Auburn University from 1947 to 1965.[1][2]

Ralph Brown Draughon Library, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA.

Biography

Ralph Brown Draughon was born in Hartford, Alabama in 1899.[3] He graduated from Alabama Polytechnic Institute, now known as Auburn University, with a B.S. in 1922 and an M.S. in 1929.[1] He was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.[4] In 1931, he became an Assistant Professor of History and Political Science at Auburn.[1]

A library at Auburn University has been named after him.[5]

gollark: A week.
gollark: #5 is... some sort of recursive sort, but with more indirection I guess?
gollark: What is it DOING? Why does it turn off the GC? Does the blattidus/2.0 codebase look like this?!
gollark: ... is #9 passing *pointers* over the sockets?
gollark: Besides, you can do that much more nicely with... well, I actually don't know if the sqlite3 python thing provides anything like `CARRAY`, but if it did then that.

References
  1. Auburn biography
  2. Auburn Presidents
  3. Auburn biography
  4. Phi Gamma Delta Archived 2011-08-07 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Auburn libraries
Academic offices
Preceded by
Luther Noble Duncan		 President of Auburn University
1947–1965		 Succeeded by
Harry M. Philpott


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