Walter M. Burse (1898-1970) served as the second president of

Suffolk University Suffolk University is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. With 7,560 students (includes all campuses, 7,379 at the Boston location alone), it is the eighth-largest university in metropolitan Boston. It was founded as a l ...

in Boston, Massachusetts from 1948 to 1954. Walter Burse graduated from

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in 1920 and then

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in 1923 and began practicing law that year. He served as president of the Boston Exchange Club and a director of the New England School of Art. Burse became a trustee of Suffolk University in 1946 and was appointed president in 1948 to replace Suffolk founder

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Burse served until 1954 and died in 1970. Burse also served as an officer of the New England Concrete Masonry AssociationRock products: Volume 54, Part 2 The Walter M. Burse Forensic Society, a debating society at Suffolk is named in his honor.

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Walter M. Burse Forensic Society
{{DEFAULTSORT:Burse, Walter Brown University alumni Harvard Law School alumni Presidents of Suffolk University 1898 births 1970 deaths 20th-century American academics