John Silber

John Silber. Self: Bicentennial Minutes. John Silber, the former president and chancellor of Boston University and the 1990 Democratic candidate for governor of Massachusetts, was born on August 15, 1926 San Antonio, Texas. He took his undergraduate degree at Trinity University in Texas in 1947, then spent the following academic year at Yale Divinity School before matriculating for a semester at the University of Texas Law School. Silber eventually returned...