Charles Woolsey Cole (February 8, 1906 – February 20, 1978)
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of Amherst College from 1946 to 1960, serving longer in that post than any other president.

Biography

Cole was also involved with the Committee on the National Security Organization, American Cancer Society,

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, Merrill Foundation for the Advancement of Financial Knowledge,

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, and

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.Charles W. Cole Papers
, Amherst College Archives and Special Collections. Charles W. Cole attended Amherst College and was a brother of the

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fraternity (Sigma chapter). Cole received his master's degree and Ph.D. from

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. He was then a history professor at Columbia. From 1961 to 1964 he was

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Charles W. Cole (AC 1927) Papers
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