William Pratt Graham (November 24, 1871 – January 10, 1962) was an electrical engineering professor and the sixth chancellor of Syracuse University.
Graham was the first alumnus of Syracuse as well as the first non-clergyman to hold that position.
[1] Graham entered Syracuse University as an undergraduate in 1889 and graduated in 1893 before pursuing postgraduate work at the University of Berlin,[6] graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy in 1897.
[1] He joined the faculty of Syracuse as an electrical engineering professor in 1898, after spending the intervening period studying the subject at Technische Universität Darmstadt,[1] and he was made dean of the College of Applied Science in 1912.
[3][8][4] Graham retired from the university in 1942 when William Pearson Tolley was elected chancellor.