Glenn Simpson Pound (March 7, 1914 – July 6, 2010) was an American educator and acting chancellor of the

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in 1977. Born in

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, Pound worked as a

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in the

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in Texas, where he worked his way up to running a farm producing vegetables and cotton. He graduated from

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in 1940, and then moved to Wisconsin that year, where he received his doctorate degree from University of Wisconsin in 1943. In 1946, Pound was named professor of plant pathology and was dean of the UW College of Agriculture from 1964 until 1979. In 1977, Pound was acting chancellor of the

. Pound retired in 1979 and moved to

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. He served as an adjunct professor of plant pathology at

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. He died in La Jolla, California in 2010.Presidents and Chancellors of University of Wisconsin–Madison

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1914 births 2010 deaths People from Pope County, Arkansas People from La Jolla, San Diego People from Madison, Wisconsin University of Arkansas alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni University of California, Riverside faculty Leaders of the University of Wisconsin-Madison {{Wisconsin-stub