Rankin, Hugh F.

  1. Rankin, Hugh F.
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17 June 1913 Born Arlington County, Va. 1931 Graduated from Reidsville High School, Reidsville, N.C. 1931 1935 Attended V.P.I. on football scholarship. 1935 1942 Worked as timekeeper to superintendent in road and bridge construction, as power lineman, clothing store clerk, tobacco factory worker, and minor league professional football player. 1942 1945 Private to first lieutenant, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 1943 Married Betty Jean Bursley, Richmond, Va. They had three sons: Patrick Allyn, John Bursley, and Wade Dillard. 1949 B.A., Elon College. 1951 M.A., University of North Carolina. 1953 1954 Worked for National Park Service, Yorktown, Va., two summers. 1955 1957 Research associate, Colonial Williamsburg, Inc., Williamsburg, Va. 1959 Ph.D., University of North Carolina. 1957 1974 Instructor to professor of history at Tulane University, New Orleans, La. 1974 1983 W. R. Irby Professor of History, Tulane University. 1962 1975 Faculty chair of athletics, Tulane University. 1989 Died in New Orleans, La.

Honors:

1952 1955 John Motley Morehead Scholarship, University of North Carolina 1953 1954 R. D. W. Connor Prize (for best article of the year in North Carolina Historical Review) 1960 Fellow, Company of Military Historians 1962 1963 Guggenheim Fellowship 1974 Doctor of Humanities, Francis Marion College, Florence, S.C. 1976 Doctor of Letters, William Carey College, Hattiesburg, Miss.

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