Francis Sheldon Hackney, President

Born 1933 in Birmingham, Alabama
Died in 2013 on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
B.A., Vanderbilt University
M.A., Yale University, 1955
Ph.D., Yale University, 1963
Hon. LL.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1966
- Assistant Professor, Princeton University, 1965-1969
- Associate Professor, Princeton University, 1969-1972
- Professor and Provost, Princeton University, 1972-1975
- President, Tulane University, 1975-1980
- Author, From Populism to Progressivism in Alabama, 1969
- Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania, 1981-2013
- Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1993-1997
- President Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania, 1999-2013