He was the acting Governor-General of the Philippines from 1929 to 1930, the Dean of the College of Law at the University of Iowa from 1930 to 1934, the twelfth President of the University of Iowa from 1934 to 1940, and the law dean at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law from 1940 to 1942.

EUGENE ALLEN GILMORE, lawyer, educator and public official, died November 4, 1953, at Iowa City, Iowa; born July 4, 1871, at Brownsville, Nebraska; son of Andrew and Sarah Jane Allen Gilmore; educated in the Auburn, Nebraska, public schools; graduated from DePauw university with B.A. degree in 1893, and from Harvard university with LL.B. degree in 1899, where he had been secretary to the president; practiced law in Boston for three years, then served upon the faculty of the University of Wisconsin law school from 1902 to 1922, one year of that period as acting dean; became vice-governor and secretary of public instruction in the Philippine Islands in 1922, where he remained until 1930, becoming acting governor general of the islands in 1927, serving to 1929; served the University of Iowa as dean of the college of law beginning in 1930, and elevated to presidency of the institution in 1934 and remained in that capacity until 1940; thereafter served two years as dean of the University of Nebraska law school, and completed his life as an educator by teaching part-time in the college of law at the University of Iowa and the last eleven years was active as counselor to students, receiving the title of president-emeritus in 1950; married December 27, 1899, at Rockport, Indiana, to Blanche Basye, who survives him, with two sons, Attorney John A. Gilmore of New York, N. Y., and Eugene Allen Gilmore, Jr., of the American Embassy in Lima, Peru, and one daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Holt, whose husband is in the American diplomatic office in Salonika, Greece; received an honorary LL. D. from DePauw in 1922, an LL.D. at the State University of Iowa in 1941, and a D.C.L. by the University of Pittsburg in 1899; a member of the First Congregational church at Iowa City, the Delta Kappa Epsilon social fraternity, Uhl Beta Kappa scholastic fraternity and Phi Alpha Delta law fraternity; a member of the bar of Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa and Nebraska; a member of the American Law institute, the American Bar association, Iowa State Bar association and the University Triangle club, a visiting professor of law at the University of California, University of Chicago and Columbia university during his career, and non-resident lecturer in law at the University of the Philippines; had been a member of the Advisory Council of the Philippine Research bureau since 1935, and a member of the board of trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching since 1938, a fellow of the American Institute Criminal Law and Criminology, former president of the American Law Schools, former member of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws from Iowa and Wisconsin and chairman of the Commission on Indonesian Customary Law of the American Council of Learned Societies since 1934; an author of a number of articles and pamphlets and several books dealing with law, including a law encyclopedia of fifteen volumes, "Modern American Law."

Source of obituary (verbatim transcription): “Annals of Iowa”, volume XXXII, no. 3, April, 1954, pages 311 - 312

He was the acting Governor-General of the Philippines from 1929 to 1930, the Dean of the College of Law at the University of Iowa from 1930 to 1934, the twelfth President of the University of Iowa from 1934 to 1940, and the law dean at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law from 1940 to 1942.

EUGENE ALLEN GILMORE, lawyer, educator and public official, died November 4, 1953, at Iowa City, Iowa; born July 4, 1871, at Brownsville, Nebraska; son of Andrew and Sarah Jane Allen Gilmore; educated in the Auburn, Nebraska, public schools; graduated from DePauw university with B.A. degree in 1893, and from Harvard university with LL.B. degree in 1899, where he had been secretary to the president; practiced law in Boston for three years, then served upon the faculty of the University of Wisconsin law school from 1902 to 1922, one year of that period as acting dean; became vice-governor and secretary of public instruction in the Philippine Islands in 1922, where he remained until 1930, becoming acting governor general of the islands in 1927, serving to 1929; served the University of Iowa as dean of the college of law beginning in 1930, and elevated to presidency of the institution in 1934 and remained in that capacity until 1940; thereafter served two years as dean of the University of Nebraska law school, and completed his life as an educator by teaching part-time in the college of law at the University of Iowa and the last eleven years was active as counselor to students, receiving the title of president-emeritus in 1950; married December 27, 1899, at Rockport, Indiana, to Blanche Basye, who survives him, with two sons, Attorney John A. Gilmore of New York, N. Y., and Eugene Allen Gilmore, Jr., of the American Embassy in Lima, Peru, and one daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Holt, whose husband is in the American diplomatic office in Salonika, Greece; received an honorary LL. D. from DePauw in 1922, an LL.D. at the State University of Iowa in 1941, and a D.C.L. by the University of Pittsburg in 1899; a member of the First Congregational church at Iowa City, the Delta Kappa Epsilon social fraternity, Uhl Beta Kappa scholastic fraternity and Phi Alpha Delta law fraternity; a member of the bar of Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa and Nebraska; a member of the American Law institute, the American Bar association, Iowa State Bar association and the University Triangle club, a visiting professor of law at the University of California, University of Chicago and Columbia university during his career, and non-resident lecturer in law at the University of the Philippines; had been a member of the Advisory Council of the Philippine Research bureau since 1935, and a member of the board of trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching since 1938, a fellow of the American Institute Criminal Law and Criminology, former president of the American Law Schools, former member of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws from Iowa and Wisconsin and chairman of the Commission on Indonesian Customary Law of the American Council of Learned Societies since 1934; an author of a number of articles and pamphlets and several books dealing with law, including a law encyclopedia of fifteen volumes, "Modern American Law."

Source of obituary (verbatim transcription): “Annals of Iowa”, volume XXXII, no. 3, April, 1954, pages 311 - 312