{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} {{More citations needed|date=February 2017}} {{Infobox person | name = Samuel Somerville Stratton | birth_date = February 23, 1898 | birth_place = Lynn, Massachusetts | death_date = March 1969 | education = Dartmouth College | alma_mater = Harvard | occupation = professor of economics and researcher in Harvard and the University of Pittsburgh }} '''Samuel Somerville Stratton''' (February 23, 1898 – March 1969<ref>{{cite web|title=United States Social Security Death Index|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J5B9-3WT|website=FamilySearch|accessdate=4 January 2017}}</ref>) served as the eleventh president of Middlebury College, 1943 - 1963.
Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, he was a graduate of Newburyport High School in Newburyport, Massachusetts and Dartmouth College,{{Citation needed|date=January 2008}} graduating in 1920 after naval service in World War I. He received an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard and served as a professor of economics and researcher there and briefly at the University of Pittsburgh.
Stratton saw Middlebury through most of World War II, when the institution hosted Naval V-12 units, and initiated an extensive program of construction while enlarging the student body and enriching the institution's liberal arts curriculum.
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