Background
Randall, James Garfield was born on June 24, 1881 in Indianapolis. Indiana. Son of Horace and Ellen Amanda (Kregelo) Randall.
Randall, James Garfield was born on June 24, 1881 in Indianapolis. Indiana. Son of Horace and Ellen Amanda (Kregelo) Randall.
Bachelor of Arts, Butler College, 1903. Master of Arts, University of Chicago, 1904, Doctor of Philosophy, 1911. Doctor of Letters, Washington and Lee University, 1948.
Doctor of Laws, Butler University, 1948.
Teacher history and political science at Illinois College, Jacksonville, 1907-1908, University of Michigan, 1908-1909, Syracuse University, 1910-1911, Butler College, 1911-1912, Roanoke College, 1912-1918. Harrison research fellow, University of Pennsylvania, 1916-1917. Professor of history, Richmond (Virginia) College, 1919-1920.
Assistant professor of history, University of Illinois, 1920-1924, associate professor, 1924-1930, professor since 1930.
Teacher summers, Duke University, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Harvard, University of California, Los Los Angeles Special expert with United States Shipping Board, 1918-1919. Member Virginia War History Commission, 1919 20, Public Archives Commission, 1926-1931.
Member American History Association (president 1951-1952), Mississippi Valley History Association (president 1939-1940), Illinois State History Society (president 1945-1946), Abraham Lincoln Association, Southern History Association, American Political Science Association Beta Kappa. Club: University.
Married Edith Laura Abbott, July 18, 1911 (died 1913). Married second, Ruth Elaine Painter, August 21, 1917.