{ "title": "Dumas_Malone", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumas_Malone", "summary": "Dumas Malone (DEW-mah; January 10, 1892 \u2013 December 27, 1986) was an American historian, minister, and biographer. A professor by occupation, Malone spent the majority of his career teaching at the University of Virginia (UVA), where he served as the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History.Malone was best known for his six-volume biography, Jefferson and His Time, for which he received the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for History. Completed in 1981, the series became Malone's defining work and is considered the foremost authoritative biography of Thomas Jefferson. Before beginning a lifelong career as a biographer, he was editor-in-chief of the twenty-volume Dictionary of American Biography and the third director of the Harvard University Press. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.", "content": [ { "section_title": "Early life and education", "section_content": [], "subsections": [ { "section_title": "Upbringing", "section_content": [ { "sentence": "Malone was born in Coldwater, Mississippi, on January 10, 1892, to clergyman John W", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "Malone (1856\u20131930) and suffragist schoolteacher Lillian Kemp", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "[note 1] He was raised in a poor, religious household which hailed from the Deep South, and his grandfather was a Confederate veteran who served in the American Civil War", "refs": [ "https://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/28/obituaries/dumas-malone-expert-on-jefferson-is-dead-at-94.html" ] }, { "sentence": "Both his mother and father were active educators who recognized the value of an intellectual upbringing\u2014his mother fostered his early disposition for reading, and his father served as an academic at a variety of educational institutions", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]", "https://www.newspapers.com/image/233463507" ] }, { "sentence": "After Malone's birth, the family moved to Oxford, Mississippi, where John Malone served as president of the Woman's College of Oxford, later becoming a minister in Brunswick, Georgia", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]", "https://www.newspapers.com/image/233463507" ] }, { "sentence": "In 1902, Malone's father was made president of Andrew College", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "In 1906, Malone matriculated at Emory College (now Emory University) at the age of fourteen, receiving his Bachelor of Arts as the youngest member of its class of 1910", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "His education at Emory consisted primarily of classical courses supplemented by Latin and Greek literature, the latter of which he was influenced by the classicist Charles Peppler; Malone later reflected of Peppler's class, \"If I am something of a classicist in spirit, that course is one of the reasons for it.\" He also took great inspiration from the economist Edgar H", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]", "https://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/28/obituaries/dumas-malone-expert-on-jefferson-is-dead-at-94.html" ] }, { "sentence": "Johnson, the instructor of the college's only history course, whose teaching Malone credited with leaving \"an abiding impression.\"", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "Despite doing well in the university's classics courses, Malone later recalled being \"not a particularly good student,\" owing his youth and immaturity as reasons for having been unprepared in college", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "He played center for the class football team and was a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity, though otherwise graduated from the college relatively undistinguished", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]", "[ERROR retrieving ref link]", "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "Regardless, he later fondly remembered Emory as a \"modest home of humane learning.\" When the college inducted him into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society in 1930, Malone remarked, \"That was lucky for me", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]", "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "I am sure they did not pay much attention to my old undergraduate record", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "I was too busy exploring life to do full justice to my studies.\"", "refs": [ "https://www.newspapers.com/image/26873377" ] } ], "subsections": [] }, { "section_title": "Ministry and Yale", "section_content": [ { "sentence": "Malone initially sought to study religion and enter the ministry upon graduating", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "He spent several years as a teacher in small, local schools; at Andrew College, he lectured on topics including mathematics, history, and the Bible", "refs": [ "https://www.newspapers.com/image/233463507", "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "Finding a passion for teaching, he briefly taught biblical literature as an adjunct professor at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, where two of his sisters had been educated", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]", "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "After spending a year at Vanderbilt University, Malone enrolled in Yale Divinity School where he excelled academically, obtaining a Fogg scholarship [note 2] for his first semester, and earning a Bachelor of Divinity in 1916", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "He had found his time at the university intellectually liberating, acquiring a passion for writing and abandoning his pursuit of theology in order to study history", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "Malone's studies were abruptly interrupted by World War I", "refs": [ "https://www.newspapers.com/image/26890273/", "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "He left Yale in 1917 to enlist in the U.S", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "Marine Corps after temporarily training as part of the Army YMCA at Camp Wheeler, becoming a Second lieutenant after graduating from Parris Island", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "However, the war ended before he saw active combat and he was discharged in January 1919", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "Malone subsequently returned to Yale to obtain a doctorate in history, enrolling as a graduate student", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "Later that same year, he was appointed as an instructor of history and began teaching a course in American history for undergraduates", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "In 1921, Malone received his master's degree and, in 1923, earned his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in history", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "His dissertation, The Public Life of Thomas Cooper, was awarded the John Addison Porter Prize; it had been supervised by the historian Allen Johnson, who had also been the one to recommend the topic to him", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "The thesis would later be used as the basis for Malone's first book, also titled The Public Life of Thomas Cooper, published in 1926", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]", "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "Following the completion of his doctorate, Malone was persuaded to join the faculty of the University of Virginia by its president, Edwin Alderman, during an interview at the American Historical Association and did so that same year", "refs": [ "https://www.newspapers.com/image/623624424/?terms=%22Dumas%20Malone%22&match=1" ] } ], "subsections": [] } ] }, { "section_title": "Career", "section_content": [], "subsections": [ { "section_title": "Virginia and the DAB", "section_content": [ { "sentence": "In the fall of 1923, Malone assumed a position as an associate professor of history at the University of Virginia; his office was located at the top floor of the Alderman Library, where it would remain for some decades", "refs": [ "https://www.nytimes.com/1975/01/09/archives/dumas-malone-is-completing-last-volume-of-the-biography-dumas.html" ] }, { "sentence": "The university had been relatively small at the time, and the whole of the history faculty consisted of just Malone and Richard Heath Dabney, the father of Virginius Dabney, upon his arrival", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "Dabney had been encumbered with the entirety of the history curriculum which spanned from ancient to modern", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "Malone undertook the courses in European and American history, giving up the courses in European history upon the arrival of Stringfellow Barr and thereafter introduced new courses in colonial history and more contemporary American history", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "It was during his time at the University of Virginia that Malone began an interest in the life of Thomas Jefferson, the university's founder", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "In his first year, he had already authored a 14-page summary of Jefferson's life for the university's Extension Series in March 1924", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "[note 3] Despite doubts by Allen Johnson, his former mentor at Yale, and calls for caution by other scholars, Malone resolved to write a voluminous biography on Jefferson by the fall of 1926", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "The next year, he traveled to France with his newly-wed wife, Elizabeth Gifford (1898\u20131992), on a Sterling Traveling Fellowship to do more extensive research which formed the basis of an article entitled \"Polly Jefferson and Her Father\" published in the January 1931 edition of the Virginia Quarterly Review", "refs": [ "https://www.nytimes.com/1975/01/09/archives/dumas-malone-is-completing-last-volume-of-the-biography-dumas.html", "[ERROR retrieving ref link]", "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "Malone's tenure at Virginia suddenly ended when Allen Johnson extended an offer for him to take the co-editorship of the monumental Dictionary of American Biography (DAB) in 1929", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]", "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "He mulled extensively over the choice, consulting friends such as Arthur M", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "Schlesinger Sr", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "and President Edwin Alderman as to whether to accept the position", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "After reluctantly choosing to leave the University of Virginia, Malone moved with his wife to Washington, D.C., to assist Johnson with the dictionary, a choice which he called \"the most painful decision I ever made.\" In January 1931, Johnson was unexpectedly killed in an automobile accident that made headlines in The New York Times and The Washington Post; his death made Malone the editor-in-chief of the DAB, a capacity which Malone continued to serve in until 1936", "refs": [ 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"[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "Conant also believed it appropriate for Malone to possess an academic title at the university and offered to name him as a professor of history, though Malone declined the post", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "Malone viewed the role of the Harvard University Press as primarily an academic institution as opposed to a business", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "His administration of the Press achieved significant success, garnering wide recognition from the publication of several notable works\u2014including two Pulitzer Prize-winners\u2014and it saw a doubling in sales", "refs": [ "https://www.hup.harvard.edu/about/history.html", "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "His aspiration of opening up the Press to the general public fueled a reputation for producing important publications", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "In May 1941, Conant congratulated him, saying, \"The general history of the Press for the past year is certainly one of which you may well be proud [...] Keep it up!\" As the war continued, however, the Press' margins became strained by an increasing sales deficit, and the relationship between Malone and the university administration began to deteriorate over serious financial issues in the midst of World War II", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]", "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "William Henry Claflin Jr., Harvard's treasurer, enacted a series of cost-cutting measures which sought to limit the affairs of the HUP to be subordinate to a \"strict economy;\" in response, Malone appealed to university officials who, in turn, drafted a memorandum reaffirming the HUP's independence", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "With a stagnant audience for academic works and student enrollment waning during the war, Malone recalled his time as director to be \"basically a lame-duck leader.\" Mounting financial and administrative quandaries complicated his wartime directorship and diminished its reputation", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "When news reached Conant of a roughly $26,000 deficit the Press had accumulated during the 1942 fiscal year, his good relationship with it ended promptly", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "In January 1943, Malone's salary and duties were reduced; in April, a majority of officials doubted his future leadership in a vote of no-confidence", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "Following this rapid decline, Malone presented his letter of resignation on July 17, writing that \"the major criteria by which my work is judged differ materially from those applied to the academic departments of the University.\" The Harvard Corporation accepted his request, and, in April 1943, Malone formally resigned his position as director in order to return to Virginia and begin work on his biography of Jefferson", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "He and his family moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, in the summer of that same year", "refs": [] } ], "subsections": [] }, { "section_title": "Return to Virginia", "section_content": [ { "sentence": "Having been relieved from his duties at Harvard, Malone dedicated his time to writing the first volume of his Jefferson biography in earnest upon returning to Virginia in 1943", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "Prior to his resignation as director, his ambition to write the comprehensive biography was secured on June 1, 1938, by means of a signed contract", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "Roger Scaife, the managing editor of Little, Brown and Company, presented the settlement for a multi-volume biography of Thomas Jefferson on March 22, 1938", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "Malone's personal finances, however, remained burdened after years of amassing debt despite the contract's generous payment and royalties", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "In early 1944, the historian Douglas Southall Freeman recommended that Malone be supplemented by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "Since Malone was then unaffiliated with any institution and thus unable to satisfy the requirements for the grant, UVA President John Lloyd Newcomb and the university's librarian, Harry Clemons, arranged for him to be given an honorary position so as to be affiliated with the University of Virginia", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "With the requirements satisfied, the Rockefeller Foundation granted a sum of $21,000 in order to fund the biography in May 1944", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "In the winter of 1943 and 1944, Malone was selected to be the \"chief historian\" of a short-lived secret committee of historians stationed at the Pentagon tasked with advising bombing policy", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "In 1945, John A", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "Krout, chairman of the History Department at Columbia University, extended an offer for him to be appointed as a professor of history at the university", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "Malone was at first reluctant to accept the position as it would disrupt his work on the first volume of his Jefferson biography, but accepted when the Rockefeller Foundation mended the terms of his agreement to fit a part-time teaching post", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "During his time teaching at Columbia, he would develop a friendship with Krout and Allan Nevins", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "In 1947, Malone finished his first volume, Jefferson the Virginian, and published the work on Jefferson's birthday the next year", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "The volume achieved acclaim by scholars, and its release was well received by audiences", "refs": [ "https://www.nytimes.com/1944/05/28/archives/rockefeller-grant-aids-jefferson-life-dr-dumas-malone-gets-21000.html" ] }, { "sentence": "According to one review by historian Merle Curti writing in the Chicago Tribune, \"The narrative, and this is primarily a narrative rather than an interpretive [biography], is lucid and, in places, vivid", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]", "[ERROR retrieving ref link]", "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "But it is for the most part sober and straightforward", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "Thus 'Jefferson the Virginian' lacks the flashy, dramatic, picturesque quality which best-sellers in the [biographical] field generally have..", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "[Although] Professor Malone makes occasional interpretations, he has tried to let the facts he has selected speak for themselves.\" In anticipation of the coming series, historian Thomas D", "refs": [ "https://www.newspapers.com/image/397887920/" ] }, { "sentence": "Clark wrote in a similar appraisal, \"This first volume is the beginning of a biographical series of major importance which will 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"https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1986/12/28/dumas-malone-94-biographer-of-jefferson-dies/fc7cecfd-316e-42b5-8a79-6b53855d767c/" ] }, { "sentence": "The trustees of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation established the Dumas Malone Graduate Research Fellowship at the University of Virginia in his honor, allotting funds to support the research of \"outstanding, advanced graduate students.\"", "refs": [ "https://www.newspapers.com/image/26890273/", "[ERROR retrieving ref link]" ] }, { "sentence": "When Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Charlottesville, Virginia, as part of her 1976 tour of the United States, Governor Mills Godwin gifted her the first five volumes of Jefferson and His Time\u2014the sixth volume, The Sage of Monticello, had not yet been completed", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "Malone's volumes concluded that it was impossible for Jefferson to have had a relationship with Sally Hemings", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "Malone also published a set of lectures, Thomas Jefferson as Political Leader (1963), with the University of California Press.", "refs": [] } ], "subsections": [] }, { "section_title": "Personal life and death", "section_content": [ { "sentence": "Malone married Elizabeth Gifford in 1925, with whom he would have two children", "refs": [] }, { "sentence": "He died on December 27, 1986, at his home in Charlottesville", "refs": [ "https://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/28/obituaries/dumas-malone-expert-on-jefferson-is-dead-at-94.html" ] }, { "sentence": "According to the University of Virginia, the cause had been a \"brief illness.\" He is buried at the University of Virginia Cemetery and Columbarium.", "refs": [ "[ERROR retrieving ref link]", "http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1983/22383c.htm" ] } ], "subsections": [] }, { "section_title": "Selected publications", "section_content": [], "subsections": [ { "section_title": "Jefferson and His Time", "section_content": [], "subsections": [] } ] }, { "section_title": "Footnotes", 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