Benjamin J. Burris

Benjamin Jackson Burris is best known for being a past president of Ball State University and held many different occupations. Burris was once a county attorney, politician, school administrator as well as the first assistant to the state superintendent of public instruction.

Burris born in 1882, grew up and was raised in southeastern Indiana. In 1906, he graduated from Central Normal College in Danville, Indiana and taught in the area schools while taking classes. He was elected the superintendent of public schools in Daviess County in 1907, making him one of the youngest superintendents of a county in the state. He continued taking courses and in 1911 he graduated from Harrison Law School in Indianapolis, Indiana. Sometime after he left his job as superintendent of Davies County to join the law firm of Padgett and Lewis in Indianapolis.

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