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"DAVID FRANKLIN HOUSTON (1866-), American public official, was born at Monroe, N.C., Feb. 17 1866. He graduated from South Carolina College in 1887 and the following year was tutor there in ancient languages. From 1888 to 1891 he was superintendent of schools at Spartanburg, S.C., and from 1891 to 1894 was a student in the Harvard Graduate School (A.M. 1892). From 1894 to 1902 he was at the university of Texas as adjunct professor of political science, professor (after 1900), and dean of the faculty (after 1899). He was president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas from -1902 to 1905 and then returned to the university of Texas as president. Three years later he was elected chancellor of Washington University, St. Louis, but resigned in 1916. In 1913 he was appointed Secretary of Agriculture by President Wilson and in 1920 was transferred to the secretaryship of the Treasury. He was a member, generally ex officio, of the Federal Council of National Defense, the National Forest Reservation Committee, the Federal Reserve Banks organization committee, and chairman of the Federal Board for Vocational Education. He favoured woman suffrage but was opposed to raising a loan for a soldiers' bonus. He was the author of A Critical Study of Nullification in South Carolina (1896).