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Otis L. Floyd

1928–1993

United States

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Otis L. Floyd (1928 – May 19, 1993) was an African-American university administrator. He served as the president of Tennessee State University, a historically black university in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1986 to 1990, and as the chancellor of the Tennessee Board of Regents from 1990 to 1993.

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