Alfred Benjamin Butts (1890 – 1962) was an American political scientist and university administrator. He served as the Chancellor of the University of Mississippi from 1935 to 1946. Early life Alfred Benjamin Butts was born in 1890 in Durham, North Carolina. In 1911, he received a B.S. degree from Mississippi A&M College, now known as Mississippi State University, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1920. He received a law degree from Yale Law School in 1930. Career From 1911 to 1935, he taught at Mississippi A&M. He served as Chancellor of the University of Mississippi from 1935 to 1946. He served as the president of the Southern Political Science Association (SPSA) in 1938. Death He died in 1962. Bibliography Public administration in Mississippi (1919) References External links 1890 births 1962 deaths People from Durham, North Carolina People from Mississippi Mississippi State University alumni Columbia University alumni Yale Law School alumni University of Mississippi faculty American political scientists 20th-century American academics 20th-century political scientists