Ambrose Burke, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAmbrose Burke
American Roman Catholic priest and president of Saint Ambrose College, Iowa
Date of Birth: 27-Nov-1895
Place of Birth: Sigourney, Iowa, United States
Date of Death: 06-Oct-1998
Profession: chaplain
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Ambrose Burke
- Monsignor Ambrose J.
- Burke (November 27, 1895 – October 6, 1998) was an English professor and Catholic priest who served as the eighth president of Saint Ambrose University (then Saint Ambrose College) from 1940 through 1956.
- A native of Iowa, he attended the college's high school program, and then the college itself, but was expelled from the seminary for a year and a half by the school's administrator for planning an evening of carousing.
- He eventually acquired a master's degree and a doctorate in English from Yale University and returned to St.
- Ambrose in 1921 as an instructor.
- He was appointed the school's president in 1940 and served for sixteen years, then the longest tenure of any St.
- Ambrose president.
- He worked as a pastor and a chaplain for many decades after and remained active until shortly before his death in October 1998, at the age of 102.
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