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Charles Coleman Thach

Charles Coleman Thach (March 15, 1860 – October 3, 1921) was the President of Alabama Polytechnic Institute, now known as Auburn University, from 1902 to 1920.[1]

Biography

Charles Coleman Thach was born in Athens, Alabama, in 1860.[2] He graduated from the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama, now known as Auburn University, in 1877.[1][3] He became a Professor of English in 1885.[1][2] He was also teaching Political Economy.[4] He was President in the same institution from 1902 to 1920.[1][2]

He was a member of the American Economic Association.[4] He was a founding member of the Alabama Library Association.[4]

Thach was the father of historian Charles C. Thach, Jr. (1894–1966), who wrote The Creation of the Presidency, 1775–1789: A Study of Constitutional History. [5]

Thach died in Dalton, Georgia, on October 3, 1921 and is buried at Pine Hill Cemetery in Auburn, Alabama alongside his wife, Ellen "Nellie" Stanford (nee Smith) Thach. [6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Auburn library
  2. ^ a b c Auburn archives
  3. ^ Encyclopedia of Alabama
  4. ^ a b c David Whitten, A History of Economics and Business at Auburn University, Routledge, 1992, pp. 20-22 [1]
  5. ^ Thach, Jr., Charles C. (1969). The Creation of the Presidency 1775-1789 (2nd ed.). Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press. p. ii. ISBN 0-8018-1108-2. To the Memory of my Father / Charles Coleman Thach
  6. ^ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/29213360/charles-coleman-thach
Academic offices
Preceded by President of Auburn University
1902–1920 		Succeeded by