Physician Edgar A. Blair (1902-1978) was born to Edgar P. and Sarah America Blair in Nashville, Tennessee. He received his M.S. degree from Vanderbilt University in 1927 and his Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1938. Blair served in the Missouri National Guard (1938-1958), rising to the rank of colonel. During this time, he was also an associate professor of physiology at Washington University in St. Louis. Upon his retirement from the military, Blair accepted a position as associate professor of physiology at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.
From the guide to the Edgar A. Blair Papers 2009-331., 1925-1978, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin)
