Fred Dow Fagg Jr. (1896 – October 14, 1981)
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between 1947 and 1957.

Biography

Fagg attended the University of Redlands, where he was a founding member of

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. During

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he became a pursuit pilot in the U.S. Air Service, based in England with the 92d Aero Squadron. Fagg received a law degree in 1927 from

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and later taught there. He was the fourth dean of

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, from 1937 to 1939. He was also the second of three directors of the short-lived Bureau of Air Commerce in the

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, from March 1937 to April 1938. Fagg's son, Fred D. Fagg III, was dean of the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark, now Lewis and Clark Law School.

References

History of USCFred D. Fagg, Jr. Papers, Northwestern University Archives, Evanston, Illinois

External links

Fred Dow Fagg, Jr. Papers, Northwestern University Archives, Evanston, Illinois
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