Background
Theodore Roosevelt Schellenberg was born on February 24, 1903 to Abraham Lawrence and Sarah Schroeder Schellenberg in Garden Township, Harvey County, Kansas.
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Theodore Schellenberg
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Schellenberg attended Tabor College (1924-1926) before transferring to the University of Kansas.
Career
Schellenberg"s publications and ideas are part of the foundation for archival theory and practice in the United States. He graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in history in 1928. He continued his education, receiving his Master"s in History from the University of Kansas and his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania.
Schellenberg had a long career with the federal government working mostly in the National Archives, where he served as Director of Archival Management from 1950 to 1956.
During this time he oversaw a massive reappraisal of documents to deaccession old records and enforced a methodology more selective in the appraisal of new records.
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