page_title: Samuel P. Capen
section_title: Personal
hierarchical_section_title: Samuel P. Capen / Personal
caption_attribution_description: English: UB North Campus Capen Hall
context_page_description: Samuel Paul Capen was an American educational administrator. He served as president of the American Council on Education and as chief of the higher education branch of the Office of Education before becoming the first salaried, full-time chancellor at the University at Buffalo. Capen led the university between 1922 and 1950.
context_section_description: Capen married Grace Duncan Wright. She was the daughter of Carroll D. Wright, the first president of Clark College. Grace Wright was the 1929-1930 president of a Buffalo women's social club known as the Twentieth Century Club.
  In 1934, Capen was one of three founders of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.
caption: Capen Hall, University at Buffalo
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