Theodore Henley Jack
Theodore Henley Jack (December 30, 1881 - September 20, 1964) was a professor, college administrator, and author. Jack began college at Southern University in Greensboro, Alabama, but he then went to the University of Alabama,[1] where he earned a bachelor’s degree (1902)[2] and a master’s degree (1903).[3] He later studied history and government at Harvard University; he was one of 11 students from the state of Alabama who were enrolled at Harvard during the 1908-1909 academic year.[4] After earning a PhD from the University of Chicago in 1915, he briefly taught at Southern University.[1] However, he quickly left there for a history position at Emory University in 1916,[5] where he also served as dean of the graduate school, dean of the college of liberal arts, and vice president of the university.[1] He left Emory to serve as president of Randolph-Macon Woman’s College from 1933 to 1952.[6]
Emory University has a collection of his papers.[7] The Los Angeles Public Library has his bookplate.[8]
He married Alice Searcy Ashley in 1910.[9] Mary Spencer Jack Craddock (December 12, 1912 - September 2, 2014) was one of their two daughters.[10]
Writings
[edit]- Sectionalism and Party Politics in Alabama, 1819-1842, Menasha, Wisconsin: George Banta Pub. Co., 1919[11]
- The Story of America for Young Americans Part 1 by Smith Burnham and Theodore Henley Jack 1932
- America Our Country by Smith Burnham and Theodore Henley Jack 1934
Further reading
[edit]- Theodore Henley Jack : a portrait by Roberta D. Cornelius[12]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "Theodore H. Jack Papers". Emory University Libraries. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
- ↑ "Degrees Conferred" (PDF). Montgomery Advertiser: 8. 5 June 1902. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
- ↑ "Commencement at State University" (PDF). Birmingham Age-Herald: 3. 4 June 1903. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
- ↑ "Alabama Students Now in Harvard" (PDF). Birmingham Age-Herald: 3. 1 February 1909. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
- ↑ "Faculty of Emory Increased by Adding Two Professors" (PDF). Americus Times-Recorder: 6. 2 October 1916. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
- ↑ "Alabama Authors » Blog Archive » JACK, THEODORE HENLEY, 1881-1964".
- ↑ "ArchivesSpace Public Interface | ArchivesSpace Public Interface".
- ↑ "Theodore Henley Jack" – via Calisphere.
- ↑ "Jack-Ashley Engagement of State-wide Interest" (PDF). Montgomery Advertiser: 5. 4 October 1910. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
- ↑ "Remembering Mary Spencer Jack Craddock". tharpfuneralhome.com.
- ↑ "Jack, Theodore Henley | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.
- ↑ Theodore Henley Jack: a portrait. Randolph-Macon Woman's College. June 21, 1961. OCLC 6598585.
External links
[edit]- 1881 births
- 1964 deaths
- Randolph–Macon College faculty
- Heads of universities and colleges in the United States
- People from Greensboro, Alabama
- Writers from Lynchburg, Virginia
- University of Alabama alumni
- Tulane University alumni
- University of Chicago alumni
- Southern University faculty
- University of Chicago faculty
- Emory University faculty
- American university and college faculty deans
- 20th-century American biographers
- 20th-century American academics