Lewis Webster Jones

1. "Blue Jeans with a Difference". Time. February 3, 1947. Archived from the original on February 26, 2008. Retrieved June 9, 2008. Last week wry, engaging Lewis Jones, 47, was ready to take a job as unlike his old one as it could be. The new job: president of the University of Arkansas.
2. https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/photograph-records/63-1223
3. "Lewis Webster Jones". Rutgers University . Retrieved June 9, 2008. Lewis Webster Jones (1899-1975), of Emerson, Nebraska was a noted economist and university president, a man of deep insight and broad educational philosophy. He spent his boyhood and youth near Portland, Oregon. A graduate of Reed College and the Brookings Graduate School of Economics and Government, where he received his Ph.D. in 1927, he had undertaken postdoctoral studies at Columbia University, the London School of Economics, Cambridge and Geneva before serving as an economist and editor with the Foreign Policy Association until 1930. During his stay in Europe, he served as an economist on the staff of the League of Nations. For two years he was the economist for the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care and then joined the original faculty of Bennington College in 1932. In 1941 he was named president of Bennington, serving with distinction until 1947, at which time he became president of the University of Arkansas. During his presidency at Arkansas, Dr. Jones was a member of the President's Commission on Higher Education. On September 7, 1951, he was selected as the fifteenth president of Rutgers.
4. Freeman, William M. (September 11, 1975). "Lewis W. Jones, 76, Dies; Led Interfaith Conference". New York Times . Retrieved June 9, 2008. Lewis Webster Jones, a former president of the National Conference of Christians and Jews and, earlier, president of Rutgers University, died yesterday of pneumonia in a hospital in Sarasota, Fla., where he lived. He was 76 years old.

Further reading

• Image and Reflection: A Pictorial History of the University of Arkansas; Ethel Simpson, U of Ark. Press, 1991.

Lewis Webster Jones
15th President of Rutgers University
In office 1951–1958

Academic offices
Preceded by Robert Devore Leigh	President of Bennington College 1941–1947	Succeeded by Frederick H. Burkhardt
Preceded by Arthur F. Harding	President of University of Arkansas 1947–1951	Succeeded by John Tyler Caldwell
Preceded by Robert Clarkson Clothier	President of Rutgers University 1951–1958	Succeeded by Mason Welch Gross