Eugene Allen Gilmore

{{short description|American politician and academic administrator (1871–1953)}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Eugene Allen Gilmore

| image = Eugene Allen Gilmore in "The badger" (1916).jpg

| caption = Eugene Allen Gilmore

| office = Acting Governor-General of the Philippines

| term_start1 = February 23, 1929

| term_end1 = July 8, 1929

| preceded1 = Henry L. Stimson

| successor1 = Dwight F. Davis

| term_start2 = August 7, 1927

| term_end2 = December 27, 1927

| preceded2 = Leonard Wood

| successor2 = Henry L. Stimson

| office3 = Vice Governor-General of the Philippines

| term_start3 = January 26, 1922

| term_end3 = June 20, 1930

| predecessor3 = Charles Yeater

| successor3 = Nicholas Roosevelt

| office4 = 10th Philippine Secretary of Public Instruction

| term_start4 = January 26, 1922

| term_end4 = June 20, 1930

| appointer4 = Leonard Wood

| predecessor4 = Charles Yeater

| successor4 = Nicholas Roosevelt

| birth_date = {{birth date|1871|7|4}}

| birth_place = Brownville, Nebraska

| death_date = {{death date and age|1953|11|4|1871|7|4}}

| death_place = Iowa City, Iowa

| spouse = Blanche Bayse (m. 1899)

}}

Eugene Allen Gilmore (July 4, 1871 – November 4, 1953) was Vice Governor-General of the Philippine Islands from 1922 to 1929, serving twice as acting Governor-General of the Philippines in 1927 and again in 1929. He also held positions as the Dean of the College of Law at the University of Iowa from 1930 to 1934, the twelfth President of the University of Iowa from 1934 to 1940, and the law dean at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law from 1940 to 1942.

Biography

Gilmore was born in Brownville, Nebraska to Andrew Gilmore and Sarah Jane Allen Hall. He received his B.A. degree from DePauw University in 1893, and his LL.B. from Harvard in 1899. He married Blanche Bayse of Rockport, Indiana on December 27, 1899. After practicing law in Boston, Massachusetts from 1899 to 1902, Gilmore served as faculty at the University of Wisconsin Law School from 1902 to 1922. While in Madison, he commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design a home, the Eugene A. Gilmore House. He was the Vice Governor-General of the Philippine Islands from 1922 to 1929.{{Cite web |title=Eugene Allen Gilmore (1934-1940) |url=https://www.lib.uiowa.edu/gallery/ui-president/eugene-allen-gilmore/ |access-date=2024-12-06 |publisher=Iowa University Libraries |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2017-08-08 |title=Gilmore, Eugene Allen 1871 - 1953 |url=https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS8113 |access-date=2024-12-06 |website= |publisher=Wisconsin Historical Society |language=en}} He became dean of the University of Iowa College of Law in 1930, then as the president of the university from 1934 to 1940.{{Cite news |date=November 5, 1953 |title=President-Emeritus Gilmore Dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/363273637/?clipping_id=164512481 |url-status=live |access-date=Feb 2, 2025 |work=Iowa City Press-Citizen |via=Newspapers.com}}

Gilmore died of a heart attack at his home in Iowa City, Iowa on November 4, 1953.{{Cite news |date=November 5, 1953 |title=Dr. Eugene Gilmore, Educator and Lawyer |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1953-11-05/ed-1/seq-32/ |access-date=December 6, 2024 |work=The Evening Star |location=Washington, D.C. |pages=A32 |agency=Associated Press}}

Legacy

Gilmore Avenue, Quezon City, a major thoroughfare in the Metro Manila, is named after him, in turn lending its name to Gilmore station, an urban mass transit station located near the avenue.{{cite web|title=Historiles Resource|url=http://historiles.com/post/39385745739/american-born-professor-of-law-eugene-allan|publisher=Light Rail Transit Authority|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130216052609/http://historiles.com/post/39385745739/american-born-professor-of-law-eugene-allan|archivedate=2013-02-16}} Gilmore Hall at the University of Iowa is named for him.