Albert Perley Brogan, obtained his PhD in Philosophy from Harvard University and taught Philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin, from 1914-1963 and was Dean of the Graduate School from 1936 to 1959.
He was born in Omaha, NE and died in San Antonio at the age of 93. His father was an attorney. It was during his tenure at UT that the Graduate school grew in its importance and rose to its place as one of the best in he world, according to a University of Texas resolution honoring him after his death.
He married Texas native, Mary Cleo Rice, on September 26, 1916 and they had 2 children (now both deceased), Francis Albert Brogan, an engineer, and Mary Rice Brogan. Mary Rice Brogan notably was a reporter for the Austin Bureau of the Houston Chronicle who was in one of the Press Buses in President Kennedy's Dallas motorcade when he was assassinated. She and a Chron colleague, reporter Bo Byers, who was also on the bus, covered the assassination and ensuing events in Dallas that weekend for the Chronicle.
A detailed biography of Dean Brogan is included in the UT memorial resolution adopted in his honor and can be read here: http://www.utexas.edu/faculty/council/2000-2001/memorials/SCANNED/brogan.pdf
He was born in Omaha, NE and died in San Antonio at the age of 93. His father was an attorney. It was during his tenure at UT that the Graduate school grew in its importance and rose to its place as one of the best in he world, according to a University of Texas resolution honoring him after his death.
He married Texas native, Mary Cleo Rice, on September 26, 1916 and they had 2 children (now both deceased), Francis Albert Brogan, an engineer, and Mary Rice Brogan. Mary Rice Brogan notably was a reporter for the Austin Bureau of the Houston Chronicle who was in one of the Press Buses in President Kennedy's Dallas motorcade when he was assassinated. She and a Chron colleague, reporter Bo Byers, who was also on the bus, covered the assassination and ensuing events in Dallas that weekend for the Chronicle.
A detailed biography of Dean Brogan is included in the UT memorial resolution adopted in his honor and can be read here: http://www.utexas.edu/faculty/council/2000-2001/memorials/SCANNED/brogan.pdf
Albert Perley Brogan, obtained his PhD in Philosophy from Harvard University and taught Philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin, from 1914-1963 and was Dean of the Graduate School from 1936 to 1959.
He was born in Omaha, NE and died in San Antonio at the age of 93. His father was an attorney. It was during his tenure at UT that the Graduate school grew in its importance and rose to its place as one of the best in he world, according to a University of Texas resolution honoring him after his death.
He married Texas native, Mary Cleo Rice, on September 26, 1916 and they had 2 children (now both deceased), Francis Albert Brogan, an engineer, and Mary Rice Brogan. Mary Rice Brogan notably was a reporter for the Austin Bureau of the Houston Chronicle who was in one of the Press Buses in President Kennedy's Dallas motorcade when he was assassinated. She and a Chron colleague, reporter Bo Byers, who was also on the bus, covered the assassination and ensuing events in Dallas that weekend for the Chronicle.
A detailed biography of Dean Brogan is included in the UT memorial resolution adopted in his honor and can be read here: http://www.utexas.edu/faculty/council/2000-2001/memorials/SCANNED/brogan.pdf
He was born in Omaha, NE and died in San Antonio at the age of 93. His father was an attorney. It was during his tenure at UT that the Graduate school grew in its importance and rose to its place as one of the best in he world, according to a University of Texas resolution honoring him after his death.
He married Texas native, Mary Cleo Rice, on September 26, 1916 and they had 2 children (now both deceased), Francis Albert Brogan, an engineer, and Mary Rice Brogan. Mary Rice Brogan notably was a reporter for the Austin Bureau of the Houston Chronicle who was in one of the Press Buses in President Kennedy's Dallas motorcade when he was assassinated. She and a Chron colleague, reporter Bo Byers, who was also on the bus, covered the assassination and ensuing events in Dallas that weekend for the Chronicle.
A detailed biography of Dean Brogan is included in the UT memorial resolution adopted in his honor and can be read here: http://www.utexas.edu/faculty/council/2000-2001/memorials/SCANNED/brogan.pdf
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