Philosophers Alexander Meiklejohn

Alexander Meiklejohn

Living place: England

Birthday: 1-2-1872

Global rank: #84210

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Who is Philosophers Alexander Meiklejohn?
British-born philosophy and science became a notable proponent of free speech. He received the JFK Medal of Freedom and it was presented to him by LBJ, and was also presented with the Rosenberger Medal in 1959.
He was president of Amherst University from 1912 to 1924, and he is also a prominent member of the ACLU's National Committee.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He received his undergraduate and master's degrees from Brown University and later earned a doctorate in Cornell philosophy.

Family life info

He was one of eight sons born to a Scots-English family in Lancashire, England. When he was eight years old, he moved with his family to Rhode Island.

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Meiklejohn was selected by President John F. Kennedy in the 1960s as the recipient of the prestigious Medal of Freedom.

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When was Philosophers Alexander Meiklejohn born?
Alexander Meiklejohn was born in 1-2-1872, death year is , at the age of 152.
Where is Philosophers Alexander Meiklejohn's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Alexander Meiklejohn was born in England. is a Philosophers, whose Zodiac is Aquarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Goat. Alexander Meiklejohn's global rank is 84210 and whose rank is 191 in list of famous Philosophers.
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Events in 1872 and 1-2

Birthday Alexander Meiklejohn (1-2) in history

  • Day 1-2 year 1790: The United States Supreme Court was convened for the first time in New York City.
  • Day 1-2 year 1862: Julia Ward Howe's poem "Battle Hymn of the Republic" was published in the Atlantic Monthly.
  • Day 1-2 year 1884: The first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary A–Ant, was published.
  • Day 1-2 year 1946: A press conference announced the first electronic digital computer, ENIAC, was held at the University of Pennsylvania.
  • Day 1-2 year 1960: Four black college students began a series of sit-ins at a white-only lunch counter in Woolworth’s, Greensboro, N.C.
  • Day 1-2 year 1968: During the Vietnam War, a Viet Cong officer was executed with a pistol shot to the head by Saigon's police chief and the image captured in a famous news photograph.
  • Day 1-2 year 1979: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Tehran after 15 years of exile.
  • Day 1-2 year 2003: The space shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it tried to reenter the Earth's atmosphere after a sixteen-day mission in space. All seven members of the crew were lost.
  • Day 1-2 year 2004: Janet Jackson's famous "wardrobe malfunction" occurred at Super Bowl XXXVIII.
  • Day 1-2 year 2009: Johanna Sigurdardottir takes office as Iceland's first female prime minister.
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