Edgar Finley Shannon Jr. (June 4, 1918 – August 24, 1997) was a professor of English and president of the University of Virginia from 1959 to 1974. The...

identify Sabato as student government president than could name Edgar F. Shannon Jr. as University president. Sabato graduated Phi Beta Kappa as a Government...

Virginia, under the initiative of the university's then President, Edgar F. Shannon Jr. Victor Reynolds, previously director of the Cornell University Press...

Colgate Whitehead Darden Jr. (February 11, 1897 – June 9, 1981) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician aligned with the Byrd Organization who...

century, until Shannon Library was opened in 1937. Originally named Alderman Library, the Library was renamed to honor Edgar F. Shannon Jr., the University...

of the whites-only Farmington Country Club. Where his predecessor Edgar F. Shannon Jr. had resigned from the club, Hereford stated that he preferred to...

retirement in 1964; a scholarship in honor of University president Edgar F. Shannon Jr., established in 1973; the Z Society Distinguished Faculty Award...

Since 1974, the University of Virginia’s Z Society has presented Edgar F. Shannon Awards to the "best" graduating students from each of the university’s...

temperature, [and] sensory isolation." The assassination of President John F. Kennedy Had originally been investigated by the Warren Commission. Some of...

(1904–1931) John Lloyd Newcomb (1931–1947) Colgate Darden (1947–1959) Edgar F. Shannon Jr. (1959–1974) Frank Hereford (1974–1985) Robert M. O'Neil (1985–1990)...