Fred Harvey Harrington (June 24, 1912 – April 8, 1995) was an American educator and the 17th president of the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1962 to 1970.
[1] Born in Watertown, Harrington received his Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University (1933), and his Master of Arts (1934) and Doctor of Philosophy (1937), both from New York University, where he also taught as an instructor during the 1936-1937 academic year.
Upon graduating, he immediately took the post of assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
[3] He was a Ford Foundation advisor in India from 1971 to 1977, and then returned to the university to continue teaching.
The award for the University of Wisconsin-Madison's best undergraduate thesis in history is known as the Fred Harvey Harrington Prize.