Charles Coleman Thach | |
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President of Auburn University | |
In office 1902–1920 | |
Preceded by | William Leroy Broun |
Succeeded by | Spright Dowell |
Personal details | |
Born | Athens, Alabama, US | March 15, 1860
Died | October 15, 1921 Dalton, Georgia, US | (aged 61)
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]
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]
Thatch died in Dalton, Georgia, on October 3, 1921.
To the Memory of my Father / Charles Coleman Thach