Chauncey Samuel Boucher
{{Short description|American academic and historian}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Chauncey Samuel Boucher
| image = Chauncey S. Boucher.png
| alt = Chauncey S. Boucher
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| office = 10th Chancellor of the University of Nebraska
| term_start = July 1, 1938
| term_end = July 31, 1946
| predecessor = Edgar A. Burnett
| successor = Reuben G. Gustavson
| office1 = President of West Virginia University
| term_start1 = 1935
| term_end1 = 1938
| predecessor1 = John Roscoe Turner
| successor1 = Charles Elmer Lawall
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1886|06|14}}
| birth_place = Chicago, Illinois
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1955|08|13|1886|06|14}}
| death_place = Petoskey, Michigan
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| occupation = scholar, academic administrator
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Chauncey Samuel Boucher (June 14, 1886 – August 13, 1955) was an American academic and historian.
Boucher was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Chauncey Watson Boucher and Elizabeth Celstea Van Loon. He was a professor of history at the University of Chicago; president of West Virginia University;{{Cite web |title=WVU Presidents |url=https://birthday.wvu.edu/history/wvu-presidents|publisher=West Virginia University|access-date=July 30, 2024 }} and chancellor of the University of Nebraska.{{Cite web|url=https://www.unl.edu/chancellor/chauncey-samuel-boucher|title=Chauncey Samuel Boucher|date=October 3, 2016|website=Office of the Chancellor}} He died at Petoskey, Emmet, Michigan in 1955, aged 69.
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Category:20th-century American historians
Category:American male non-fiction writers
Category:University of Chicago faculty
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Category:Presidents of West Virginia University
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