Robert McNutt McElroy
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Robert McNutt McElroy (December 28, 1872 - January 15, 1959) was a professor of history at Princeton University from 1898 to 1916.
He was born in Perryville, Kentucky. He married Louise Booker on May 21, 1900. He died in Lihuie, Hawaii and was buried in Princeton, New Jersey.
He was the first American professor to teach in China on an official professor-exchange program, lecturing there from 1916 to 1917. He became a jingoistic advocate of a strong national defense during World War I, working with the National Security League. He famously accused students at the University of Wisconsin of being fraught with communist sympathizers.
During the 1920s and 1930s he taught at Oxford University, Cambridge University and other institutions of higher education in the United Kingdom.
He was a noted biographer of Grover Cleveland and Jefferson Davis, and wrote notable histories of the states of Kentucky and Texas and the conquest of the American West.
