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==Early life and education== Pusey was born in [[Council Bluffs, Iowa]], to John and Rosa Pusey.<ref name="NYT">{{Citation|last=Yarrow| first=Andrew L. | title =Nathan Pusey, Harvard President Through Growth and Turmoil Alike, Dies at 94| page = D11 | work= The New York Times| url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/2001/11/15/obituaries/15PUSE.html| date =15 November 2001}}</ref> His great uncle [[William Henry Mills Pusey]] had served as an Iowa state senator and member of the United States House of Representatives. He shared a name with another great uncle, Iowa state senator [[Nathan Pusey (politician)|Nathan Marsh Pusey]]. The younger Pusey was educated at [[Harvard College]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]]), and received [[Master of Arts|M.A.]] (1928) and [[Ph.D.]] (1937) degrees from [[Harvard University]], studying [[English literature]] and [[ancient history]]. During his freshman year in college, he lived in [[Stoughton Hall]].<ref name="Crimson">{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040703222908/http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=160696|archivedate=July 3, 2004|title=Nathan Pusey dead at 94|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=160696|work=The Harvard Crimson|date=November 15, 2001|accessdate=October 15, 2020|url-status=dead}}</ref> He married Anne Woodward in 1936. The couple later had three children.<ref name="Crimson"/><ref name="NYT"/>
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