Edward L. Henry (March 30, 1921 – September 30, 2010) was an American Democratic politician and academic. Henry was mayor of St. Cloud, Minnesota, for two terms, from 1964 to 1971. He later served as the president of several colleges and universities. Henry was the first lay and male president of Saint Mary's College, a Catholic women's college in Indiana, from 1972 to 1974. He then became president of Saint Michael's College (in Colchester, Vermont), serving from 1976 to 1985. Henry later became the 8th president of Marian University (Fond du Lac, Wisconsin), then called Marian College of Fond du Lac, serving from 1986 to 1989. He also served as president of Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina from 1989 to 1990. Biography Early life and education Henry was born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, in 1921. He graduated from Cathedral High School and in 1943 received his bachelor's degree from St. John's University, an all-male college in Collegeville, Minnesota. He attended Harvard University as a graduate student. He later obtained his master's degree in political science, his MBA, and his doctorate in political science from the University of Chicago. Career Henry enlisted as a United States Naval officer during World War II. After the war he returned to St. Cloud, where he worked as a political science professor at St. John's University for 19 years. Henry chaired the political science department from 1954 to 1971. He later became Vice President of St. John's and the founder of the school's development department. Mayor of St. Cloud Henry served two terms as mayor of his native St. Cloud, from 1964 to 1971. He chaired the St. Cloud school board during the 1960s. In 2010, the St. Cloud Times described Henry as "one of the most influential mayors in St. Cloud history". During his tenure as mayor, Henry founded Tri-CAP, the first anti-poverty program to encompass several towns and other municipalities in the rural United States. He spearheaded the relocation of the St. Cloud Regional Airport, the creation of the St. Cloud Housing Authority and the development and construction of what became the Municipal Athletic Complex. Henry negotiated an agreement to annex the Crossroads Center shopping mall to the city of St. Cloud. The mall had been part of an adjacent township before the annexation. Henry oversaw a civic development program that culminated in St. Cloud receiving an All-America City Award in 1973,