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William Ivy Hair (November 19, 1930 –August 6, 1992) was an American historian and the Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Southern History at Georgia College in Milledgeville, Georgia. [1]
William Ivy Hair was born on November 19, 1930, in Monroe, Louisiana. He attended Louisiana State University (LSU), where he was manager of the school's newspaper The Daily Reveille . After earning a BA and MA, Hair joined the United States Army in 1954. He was honorably discharged in 1956. [2]
After his discharge, Hair returned to LSU as a graduate. While there he met and married Emily Karolyn Stevens. In 1957, the couple moved to Florida State University (FSU), where he was a visiting professor from 1957 to 1963. After finishing his history Ph.D. in 1962, Hair became a visiting professor at LSU. However, he returned to FSU again, where he served as assistant professor at FSU in 1963 and rose to a full Professor by 1969. He also became the chair of the History Department and published his first book, Bourbonism and Agrarian Protest: Louisiana Politics: 1877-1900. [2]
Hair died on August 6, 1992. [2]