Robert Crawford Cotner Papers 1767-1981, 1995

Cotner, Robert Crawford

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Robert Crawford Cotner (1906-1980) began his career as an historian, author, and teacher in 1928 when he completed his B.A. degree at Baylor University. Dr. Cotner began his teaching career as a debate coach at Midland High School in 1929. He earned his M.A. degree from Brown University and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He came to the University of Texas in 1940. As a professor of history, he developed courses in social and intellectual history and American biography. As an author, Robert C...

Hogg, Ima.

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University of Texas. Dept. of History

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Hogg, James Stephen, 1851-1906

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James S. Hogg, lawyer, businessman and politician, was attorney general (1887-1890) and governor (1891-1895) of Texas. From the guide to the James Stephen Hogg Papers, 1836-1969, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin) James Stephen Hogg, the first native governor of Texas, was born near Rusk on March 24, 1851, the son of Lucanda (McMath) and Joseph Lewis Hogg. His father, a brigadier general, died at the head of his comman...

Painter, Theophilus S. (Theophilus Shickel), 1889-1969

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Theophilus Shickel Painter, scientist and university president, was born in Salem, Virginia, on August 22, 1889, the son of Franklin Verzelius Newton and Laura Trimble (Shickel) Painter. He received a B.A. degree from Roanoke College in 1908 and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale in 1909 and 1913. He did postdoctoral work at the University of Würzburg in 1913-14. From 1914 to 1916 he was instructor in zoology at Yale. He served in the Connecticut National Guard in 1916. In the fall of...