Dumas Malone

Background

Malone, Dumas was born on January 10, 1892 in Coldwater, Mississippi, United States. Son of John W. and Lillian (Kemp) Malone.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Emory University, 1910; Doctor of Letters, Emory University, 1936; Bachelor of Divinity, Yale University, 1916; A.M., Yale University, 1921; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1923; Doctor of Laws, Northwestern University, 1935; Doctor of Laws, Thomas Jefferson U., 1983; the Doctor of Letters, University Rochester, 1936; Doctor of Letters, Dartmouth College, 1937; Doctor of Letters, College William and Mary, 1977; Doctor of Letters, Hampden-Sydney College, 1979; Doctor of Letters, Dickinson College, 1982; Doctor of Humane Letters, University Chattanooga, 1962.

Career

Instructor history, Yale University, 1919-1923; visiting professor American history, Yale University, 1926-1927; senior Sterling traveling fellow, Yale University, 1927; associate professor of history, University of Virginia, 1923-1926; professor, University of Virginia, 1926-1929; Thomas Jefferson Foundation professor of history, University of Virginia, 1959-1962; biographer-in-residence, University of Virginia, 1962-1986; an editor, Dictionary American Biography, 1929-1931; editor in chief, Dictionary American Biography, 1931-1936; director, Harvard University Press, 1936-1943; professor of history, Columbia University, 1945-1959. Consultant National Association Ednl. Broadcasters on The Jeffersonian Heritage, 1952.

Achievements

• Dumas Malone has been listed as a noteworthy Historian, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Thomas Jefferson: A Brief Biography

    ( Dumas Malone wrote his first 15,000 word essay about Je...)

  • Jefferson and His Time (6 Volumes)

    (Jefferson and His Time is a six-volume biography of U. S....)

Membership

Board directors Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1956-1969. Member advisory committees on publication Papers of Jefferson and Madison. Served from private to Second lieutenant United States Marine Corps, 1917-1918.

Member American History Association, American Antiquarian Society, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts History Society (Kennedy medal 1972), Southern History Association (president 1967-1968), Society of America Historians (Bruce Catton prize 1984), Virginia History Society, Phi Beta Kappa (visiting scholar 1964-1965, 60-67. Medal for contribution to humanities 1982), Omicron Delta Kappa, Raven Society Clubs: Century (New York City), Virginians (New York City). Cosmos (Washington).

Connections

Married Elisabeth Gifford, October 17, 1925. Children: Gifford Dumas, Pamela.

Father:

John W. Malone

Mother:

Lillian (Kemp) Malone

Spouse:

Elisabeth Gifford

child:

Gifford Dumas Malone

child:

Pamela Malone