Warren Milton Persons | |
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Born | 1878 |
Died | October 11, 1937 |
Education | University of Wisconsin |
Occupation | Economist |
Spouse | Irmagarde Keller |
Warren M. Persons (1878–1937) was an American economist. He was an assistant professor of economics atDartmouth College, and a professor of economics atColorado College andHarvard University. He was the President of theAmerican Statistical Association in 1923.
Warren M. Persons was born in 1878.[1] He graduated from theUniversity of Wisconsin in 1899, and he earned a PhD in economics in 1916.[2]
Persons taught economics at the University of Wisconsin from 1901 to 1906.[2] He was an assistant professor of economics atDartmouth College from 1906 to 1910.[2] He was a professor of economics atColorado College from 1913 to 1918, and atHarvard University from 1918 to 1928.[2] He was also the editor ofThe Review of Economics and Statistics.[2]
Persons became a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1914, and its president in 1923.[2]
Persons married Irmagarde Keller in 1906.[2] He fell ill with tuberculosis in 1910 and survived in 1913.[2]
Persons died on October 11, 1937.[1][2]
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