George Pratt Schultz

In the summer of 1941, George P. Schultz, who would serve as dean of the University of Chicago’s School of Business (1962–69); US Secretary of Labor (1969–70); US Secretary of the Treasury (1972–74); US Secretary of State (1982–89), and an executive and president of Bechtel, lived on campus and did research for his undergraduate senior thesis at Princeton. His thesis was an examination of TVA’s effect on local agriculture. He graduated from Princeton with honors in 1942.