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, where he earned a bachelor’s degree (1902) and a master’s degree (1903). After earning a PhD from the University of Chicago in 1915, he briefly taught at Southern University. However, he quickly left there for a history position at Emory University in 1916, where he also served as dean of the graduate school, dean of the college of liberal arts, and vice president of the university. He left Emory to serve as president of Randolph-Macon Woman’s College from 1933 to 1952.
Emory University has a collection of his papers. The Los Angeles Public Library has his bookplate.
He married Alice Searcy Ashley. Mary Spencer Jack Craddock (December 12, 1912 - September 2, 2014) was one of their two daughters.
Writings
- Sectionalism and Party Politics in Alabama (1816-1842), George Banta Pub. Co., Menasha, Wisconsin 1919
- 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
- Theodore Henley Jack : a portrait by Roberta D. Cornelius
References
- ^ "Theodore H. Jack Papers". Emory University Libraries. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
- "Alabama Authors » Blog Archive » JACK, THEODORE HENLEY, 1881-1964".
- "ArchivesSpace Public Interface | ArchivesSpace Public Interface".
- "Theodore Henley Jack" – via Calisphere.
- "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 – via Open WorldCat.
External links
Categories:- 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