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Charles Abba Baugher

American academic administrator (1893-1962)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ5074933 ↗
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Charles Abba Baugher (September 9, 1893 – November 2, 1962) was an American academic, a former professor and President of Elizabethtown College.

Baugher became President of Elizabethtown College in 1941 and served until 1961.

The Baugher Student Center on Elizabethtown College's campus is named after him.

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This entry incorporates text from “Charles Abba Baugher” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.