Murdoch Maxwell MacOdrum (May 30, 1901 – August 1, 1955) was the second president of Carleton College (later

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) in

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. Born in

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, MacOdrum got his B.A. from

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in 1923, his MA in 1925 from

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and a PhD in English from the

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. In 1935 he was ordained as a

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minister in Sydney, N.S., where he ministered for four years. After a stint at the Dominion Coal and Steel Co. in Sydney, MacOdrum came to Ottawa in 1944 to sell war bonds. There he was recruited by Carleton College's founder and president,

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, to be his executive assistant and eventual successor. MacOdrum became president upon Tory's death in 1947. MacOdrum successfully lobbied the Ontario government to give the young but as-yet-unrecognized college a charter and degree-granting powers, which it got in 1952. He also oversaw many of the land deals that would eventually lead to Carleton's move to a new Rideau River campus in 1958, though he died three years before that move actually took place. In his honour, the second building on the new campus was named the Maxwell MacOdrum Library. He died of a heart attack in 1955. Upon his death, MacOdrum was succeeded by acting president James Alexander Gibson.

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