Eugene Allen Gilmore was the acting
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from 1929 to 1930, the Dean of the
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at the
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from 1930 to 1934, the twelfth President of the
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from 1934 to 1940, and the law dean at the
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from 1940 to 1942.
Biography
Gilmore was born in
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to Andrew and Sarah Jane Allen Hall. He received his B.A. degree from
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in 1893, and his LL.B. from Harvard in 1899. He married Blanche Bayse of
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on December 27, 1899. After practicing law in Boston from 1899 to 1902, Gilmore served as faculty at the
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from 1902 to 1922. He was the Vice Governor-General in the Philippine Islands from 1922-1929. The author of a number of articles and pamphlets and several books dealing with law, Gilmore also wrote a law encyclopedia of 15 volumes called
Modern American Law. His first child, Eugene A. Gilmore, Jr., was born in 1902; Elizabeth in 1905, and John Andrew in 1910.
Gilmore died of a heart attack at his home in
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on November 4, 1953.
Legacy
A
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street named Gilmore Avenue was named after him in honor of his service as acting governor-general of the Philippines.