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]

Charles Coleman Thach
Thatch pictured in The Glomerata 1919, Auburn yearbook
President of Auburn University
In office
1902–1920
Preceded byWilliam Leroy Broun
Succeeded bySpright Dowell
Personal details
Born(1860-03-15)March 15, 1860
Athens, Alabama
DiedOctober 15, 1921(1921-10-15) (aged 61)
Dalton, Georgia

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]

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

References
  1. Auburn library
  2. Auburn archives
  3. Encyclopedia of Alabama
  4. David Whitten, A History of Economics and Business at Auburn University, Routledge, 1992, pp. 20-22
  5. Thatch, 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 Thatch


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