Guy Stanton Ford (May 9, 1873 – December 29, 1962) was the sixth president of the

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. Ford had originally come to the University of Minnesota in 1913, serving as the dean of the Graduate School and as a professor of history. He became president in 1938 after the sudden death of Lotus Coffman. He left the University of Minnesota in November 1941 to become the executive secretary of the

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and Editor of

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(until 1953). Ford's doctoral thesis (

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, 1903) was entitled ''Hanover and Prussia, 1795–1803. A Study in Neutrality''. Before he went to the University of Minnesota, he was a faculty member of

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and the

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. He was also a member of the

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. The annua
Guy Stanton Ford Memorial Lecture
is a

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by a distinguished scholar in any of many different fields.

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Guy Stanton Ford papers
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