Campbell, Thomas M. (Thomas Moody), 1936-1993

Thomas M. Campbell was born May 2, 1936 in Evanston, IL. He received his B.A. (cum laude) and was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Randolph-Macon College in 1958. He earned his M.A. (1960) and Ph.D. (1964) degrees from the University of Virginia, where he started his academic career as a teaching assistant. He joined the faculty of Florida State University in 1963 as an instructor and became a full professor of history in 1977. Dr. Campbell was the author of "Masquerade Peace: America's U.N. Policy, 1944-1945" (University Presses of Florida, 1973), and co-edited with George C. Herring "The Diaries of Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., 1943-1946" (Franklin Watts, 1974), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1975. He was also a contributor to Lawrence S. Kaplan and Robert W. Clawson's "NATO after Thirty Years" (Scholarly Resources, 1981), and wrote numerous articles for historical journals, such as International Organization, Journal of American History, and American Historical Review. At his death on July 11, 1993, Campbell was doing research for a biography of Stettinius, an industrialist, who served President Franklin D. Roosevelt as lend-lease administrator and U.S. Secretary of State.