Joseph Daniel Duffey

Joseph Duffey (elected April 1991) died February 25, 2021. A coal miner’s son and ordained minister who organized Freedom Rides for civil rights in the 1960s, Duffey was appointed assistant secretary of state for educational and cultural affairs by President Jimmy Carter in early 1977 and was subsequently named chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, serving until 1982. He served as chancellor of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst from 1982 to 1991 and president of American University from 1991 to 1993.