History of the Office of the MIT President

FRANCIS AMASA WALKER, 1840-1897

Francis Amasa Walker, 1840-1897, A.B. 1860, Amherst College, was the third president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1881-1897. During the Civil War he was a staff officer with the Army of the Potomac, emerging a brevet brigadier general. He was superintendent of the Ninth Census, 1870-1872, and the Tenth Census, 1879-1881. In 1871-1872 he was also Commissioner of Indian Affairs. From 1873 to 1881 he was professor of political economy and history in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University.

Prepared by the Institute Archives, MIT Libraries
November 1995

Photograph courtesy of the MIT Museum

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