Chauncey Samuel Boucher | |
Office: | 10th Chancellor of the University of Nebraska |
Term Start: | July 1, 1938 |
Term End: | July 31, 1946 |
Predecessor: | Edgar A. Burnett |
Successor: | Reuben G. Gustavson |
Office1: | President of West Virginia University |
Term Start1: | 1935 |
Term End1: | 1938 |
Predecessor1: | John Roscoe Turner |
Successor1: | Charles Elmer Lawall |
Birth Date: | 14 June 1886 |
Birth Place: | Chicago, Illinois |
Death Place: | Petoskey, Michigan |
Occupation: | scholar, academic administrator |
Chauncey Samuel Boucher (June 14, 1886 – August 13, 1955) was an American academic and historian.
Boucher was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Chauncey Watson Boucher and Elizabeth Celstea Van Loon. He was a professor of history at the University of Chicago; president of West Virginia University;[1] and chancellor of the University of Nebraska.[2] He died at Petoskey, Emmet, Michigan in 1955, aged 69.