Dexter Merriam Keezer (24 August 1895 – June 24, 1991) was an American economist who served as president of Reed College from 1934 to 1942.
Dexter Merriam Keezer was born Aug. 24, 1895, in Acton, Massachusetts.
from Cornell University in 1923 and a Ph.D. from the Brookings Graduate School of Economics and Government in 1925.
[2] There is some evidence he served in London in August 1943 in the offices of Lend-Lease Ambassador Averell Harriman.
This is confirmed in the private papers of Lt. Gen. John C. H. Lee, the commander of all US Army logistics forces in the European Theater, who met with Harriman, his staff, and visitors on a weekly basis.