Robert Clarkson Clothier (January 8, 1885 – March 18, 1970) was the fourteenth president of Rutgers University, serving from 1932 to 1951.

[1] Robert was born on January 8, 1885, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Agnes Evans (1849–1900) and Clarkson Clothier (1846–1917).

He graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree from Princeton in 1908, then worked for The Wall Street Journal as a reporter, and was the employment manager of Curtis Publishing Company.

Bill, and declared that the University would accommodate "all qualified veterans and high school graduates for whom it is possible to provide, not just those whom it is convenient to take."

I seem to see a great university, great in endowment, in land, in buildings, in equipment, but greater still, second to none, in its practical idealism, and its social usefulness.In the summer of 1947, he served as president of the New Jersey Constitutional Convention, held in the College Avenue Gymnasium, that produced the state's third constitution.