Eugene Allen Gilmore

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Eugene Allen Gilmore was born July 4, 1871, at Brownville, Nebraska, the son of Andrew and Sarah Jane Allen Hall. He received his B.A. degree from DePauw University in 1893, and his LL.B. from Harvard in 1899.

• Practiced law in Boston, 1899-1902
• Faculty of the University of Wisconsin law school, 1902-1922
• Vice Governor-General in the Philippine Islands, 1922-1929
• Governor-General of the Philippines, 1929-1930
• Dean of the College of Law, University of Iowa, 1930-1934
• President of the University of Iowa, 1934-1940
• Law Dean at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law from 1940 - 1942

The author of a number of articles and pamphlets and several books dealing with law, including a law encyclopedia of 15 volumes, "Modern American Law."

Married Blanche Bayse of Rockport, Indiana, December 27, 1899.

Children: Eugene A. Gilmore, Jr., born in 1902, Elizabeth in 1905, and John Andrew in 1910.

Died of a heart attack at his home in Iowa City on November 4, 1953.

Preceded by Leonard Wood	Governor-General of the Philippines 1927	Succeeded by Henry L. Stimson
Preceded by Henry L. Stimson	Governor-General of the Philippines 1929-1930	Succeeded by Dwight F. Davis