Newsome, Albert Ray, 1894-1951

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Name (Latin)
Newsome, Albert Ray, 1894-1951
Other forms of name
Newsome, A. R. (Albert Ray), 1894-1951
Date of birth
1894-06-04
Date of death
1951-08-05
Associated country
United States
Occupation
Archivists
Historians
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
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Other Identifiers

VIAF: 1453305
Wikidata: Q4711065
Library of congress: n 85216708
Sources of Information

Wikipedia description:

Albert Ray Newsome (1894–1951) was an American author, editor, educator, and historian in North Carolina, and served as chairman of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Department of History. Newsome also served as the first president of the Society of American Archivists from 1936 to 1939. He co-authored North Carolina: The History of a Southern State along with Hugh Talmage Lefler in 1954. In 1996, Newsome’s grandson Christopher Quackenbush established “The Albert Ray Newsome Distinguished Professorship for the Study of the South".

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