predecessor successor death_date title birth_date term_start order image article_title term_end name alma_mater
charles phelps norton t. r. mcconnell 22 june 1956 chancellor of the university at buffalo march 21 , 1878 1922 7th samuel p capen.jpg samuel p. capen
 1950 samuel p. capen tufts -lrb- m.a. -rrb- university of pennsylvania -lrb- ph.d. -rrb- university -lrb- b.a. , m.a. -rrb- harvard university
samuel p. capen

samuel p. capen -lrb- march 21 , 1878 - june 22 , 1956 -rrb- 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 .
