Walter Coffey
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Walter Coffey was the seventh president of the University of Minnesota
, serving from 1941 to 1945.
Coffey was raised in Indiana. He received a degree from Franklin College. He latter went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
first as a sheep herder and later as a student and eventually a professor.
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...
, serving from 1941 to 1945.
Coffey was raised in Indiana. He received a degree from Franklin College. He latter went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...
first as a sheep herder and later as a student and eventually a professor.