the Missouri General Assembly. In 1912, Hadley served as floor leader for Theodore Roosevelt's wing of the Republican Party at the 1912 Republican National Convention. After the death of Vice President James S. Sherman in October 1912, President William Howard Taft strongly considered naming Hadley as Sherman's replacement on the 1912 Republican ticket, but Taft ultimately did not select a replacement before the election was held. Following his gubernatorial term, Hadley resumed his law practice and worked on a federal railroad valuation project. In 1917, he moved to Colorado for health reasons and was professor of law at the University of Colorado through 1923. Washington University Hadley became the seventh Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis in 1923. He was recruited for the position by Robert S. Brookings who helped establish the Graduate School of Economics and Government, which became part of the Brookings Institution in 1927. During his four years as chancellor, the University also founded the George Warren Brown Department of Social Work, which later became its own school within the university and one of the top-ranked social-work programs in the United States. As a law professor, he authored Rome and the World Today (Putnam, 1922). Advocacy and death Throughout his later years, Hadley was an advocate of legal reform and participated in reform initiatives of the American Bar Association, American Law Institute, and National Crime Commission. He was one of the authors of the Missouri Crime Survey, which recommended and successfully led to the intermediate reformatories and parole boards as part of Missouri's penal system. Hadley was the recipient of honorary degrees from Northwestern University (1909), the University of Missouri (1910), and Harvard University (1925). He died in 1927 of heart disease in St Louis, Missouri, and is buried at the Riverview Cemetery in Jefferson City, Missouri. See also Hadley portrait case in Samantha Littlefield Huntley Sources "Herbert Spencer Hadley. "Dictionary of American Biography Base Set. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928–1936". Reproduced in History Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group. External links Biographical entry at Washington University in St. Louis 1872 births 1927 deaths Politicians from Olathe, Kansas University of Kansas alumni Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law alumni Chancellors of Washington University in St. Louis Republican Party governors of Missouri Missouri Attorneys General American Quakers University of Colorado Law School faculty