Lewis Webster Jones

Lewis Webster Jones (11 June 1899 – 10 September 1975) was an economist, and the President of the University of Arkansas from 1947 to 1951 and of Rutgers University from 1951 to 1958. He was born in Emerson, Nebraska, and spent his youth in Portland, Oregon. Jones received his undergraduate degree from Reed College, and later earned his Ph.D. from the Brookings Graduate School of Economics and Government (now the Brookings Institution). Jones the... more

Lewis Webster Jones (11 June 1899 – 10 September 1975) was an economist, and the President of the University of Arkansas from 1947 to 1951 and of Rutgers University from 1951 to 1958. He was born in Emerson, Nebraska, and spent his youth in Portland, Oregon. Jones received his undergraduate degree from Reed College, and later earned his Ph.D. from the Brookings Graduate School of Economics and Government (now the Brookings Institution). Jones then did post-doctoral work at Columbia University, the London School of Economics, the University of Cambridge and the University of Geneva. During his studies in Europe, he served as an economist on the staff of the League of Nations. He then joined the faculty of Bennington College in 1932 where he served as president from 1941 to 1947. He served from 1947 to 1951 as the 12th president of the University of Arkansas. At Arkansas, he began the process of rebuilding the University after World War II. New graduate programs began, expanded and new... less