User:Professor JR

User/Editor since 2006 --- known as "Professor JR" since 2015.

History as Wikipedia User/Editor

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Professor JR - has been a Wikipedia user & editor since 2006, and has made numerous contributions to many Wikipedia articles on a variety of different subject matter. He established the username "Professor JR" in 2015.

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Profile

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The Grand Teton Mountain Range in northwestern Wyoming

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Bison grazing on the Great Plains of the American West

Wyoming
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Professor JR, is a proud native son of the American West, who was born and grew up on the sagebrush prairies of the Great Plains in eastern Wyoming, north of Cheyenne.

He earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Wyoming in Laramie, studying on a Ford Foundation Scholarship; spent two years abroad as a Fulbright Scholar & Professor; and completed courses in senior government management at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Over the course of his career, he has served as a University Professor of American History and American Studies, as a National Park Ranger, as a Legislative Aide in the U.S. Congress, and as a senior Federal Government Official in Washington, DC, where he currently resides.

Career

Entrance to University of Hawaii Mānoa Campus

View of University of Idaho Arboretum & Botanical Garden - University of Idaho

Academic Positions

From the top to bottom, left to right: Asunción skyline, Citibank Tower, Asunción Cabildo, National Pantheon of the Heroes, Palacio de los López, Hotel Guaraní

The University of Hawaii's Mānoa Campus - viewed from Round Top Drive, with Diamond Head in the background

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• University of Hawaii, Honolulu -- taught: American Literature.

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• University of Idaho, Moscow, ID -- taught: British & American Literature.

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• National University, Asunción, Paraguay -- taught: American History; American Literature; American Political Thought; served as Chairman, Department of English Languages.

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Government Service

American Bison graze in a geothermal hot springs meadow in Yellowstone National Park

Seal of United States Department of the Interior

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• National Park Service --- Park Ranger, Yellowstone NP; . National Program Manager, Headquarters, Washington, DC.

• United States Congress --- Legislative Aide.

• U.S. Department of the Interior --- SES Senior Executive.

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NPS Emblem

United States Congress, Capitol Building

Memberships

• Assoc. of National Park Rangers - Life Member.
• Employees & Alumni Association of the Nat'l. Park Service (E&AA) - Life Member.
• National Parks Conservation Association.
• National Wildlife Federation.
• Nature Conservancy.
• Environmental Defense Fund.
• Omicron Delta Kappa Nat'l. Leadership Honor Society.
• Phi Delta Theta.
• Ancient & Honorable Order of Turtles.
• Iron Skull Honorary.
• Society of American Magicians.
• Honolulu Academy of Arts - Associate Member.

Personal Data

Washington, D.C.

Proud American

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Professor JR is married, and resides with his wife --- a television & film producer, and a native of Upstate New York's Mohawk Valley --- and his family just outside Washington, DC.

He operates a small modern and contemporary art gallery, and antiques & collectibles business in Northern Virginia; enjoys pursuing an avocational interest in the Art of Magic and Illusion and collecting antique magic memorabilia; and shares with his family a long-standing involvement with local animal welfare & rescue work, in addition to other hobbies & pursuits.

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Theatrical poster for Magician "Herrmann the Great's" stage show

Some of my favorite things.

Contemporary Modern Art

Poster for Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show

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