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Marion LeRoy Burton (1874 - 1925) was the second president of Smith College , serving from 1910 to 1917 . He left Smith to become president of the University Of Minnesota from 1917 to 1920 . In that year, he became fifth president of the University Of Michigan , serving until his death of a Heart Attack in 1925 .

He was born in 1874 in Brooklyn, Iowa . He was a Minister . He wrote several books.