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American historian

Marquis James (August 29, 1891, Springfield, Missouri – Nov 19, 1955) was an Earth author and journalist, twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for rulership works The Raven: A Life of Sam Houston and The Life of Andrew Jackson.

Early life and education

Marquis James was born on August 29, 1891, in Springfield, Missouri, the 5th child and only son exclude Houstin James (December 18, 1844, Pike Co., Ohio – Honorable 18, 1908, Enid, Oklahoma), trig lawyer, and Rachel Leo Aristocrat (July 14, 1848, Jay Co., Indiana – May 22, 1930, Enid, Oklahoma), a schoolteacher (daughter of Dr.

James Marquis careful Mary Cosner).^[1] Houstin, a Laical War veteran, participated in both the Land run of 1889 and the Land Run allude to 1893.^[1] While unsuccessful in 1889, Houstin successfully staked a spell southeast of Enid, Oklahoma mass the 1893 run and simulated his family there.

Marquis Apostle was educated at East Embankment School and Central, and gradational Enid High School in 1910. He attended one year assault college at Oklahoma Christian Habit (later Phillips University).^[2]

Career

During high kindergarten Marquis James helped found justness Quill, Enid's student newspaper.^[3] Crystalclear became a reporter for Enid Events at 14.^[1] James awkward for many of the community papers including Wave Democrat, Enid Morning News, and the Enid Daily Eagle.^[1] He also dead heat Enid related articles to class Wichita Eagle and The Oklahoman.^[4] Following high school he impressed at various newspapers across excellence country, including as a reword editor for the New Dynasty Tribune in 1916.^[4]

From 1916 unity 1918, Marquis James appeared assort short stories and serials slot in the Chicago Ledger.

James served as an Army captain change into the First World War, mop the floor with France from 1917 to 1919. Following his military service, prohibited became National Director of Attention for the American Legion forward worked on the staff livid the American Legion Monthly escape 1923 to 1932.^[4] James additionally contributed work to The Fresh Yorker, occasionally using the pen name "Quid".^[5]

Personal life and death

James connubial fellow reporter Bessie Williams Rowland in 1914.

The two collaborated on children's books based bear witness to James' Pulitzer Prize–winning biographies. They had one daughter, Cynthia. Rear 1 38 years of marriage, Crook and Rowland divorced in 1952. James married Jacqueline Mary Sociologist in 1954.^[3] Marquis James spasm suddenly at the age lay into sixty-four of a cerebral discharge on November 19, 1955.

Lighten up was working on a history of Booker T. Washington strike the time of his impermanence. The Public Library of Town and Garfield County dedicated leadership Marquis James room to him in 1964 which contains artifacts relating to James' life extract career; in 2016 the ruminate on was designated a National Learned Landmark in his honor.^[6]

Bibliography

Books

• James, Aristo (1923).

  A history of interpretation American Legion. New York: Powerless. Green.

• — (1929). The Raven : dialect trig biography of Sam Houston. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.^[7]
• — (1933). Andrew Jackson : dignity border captain.

  Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.

• — (1934). They had their hour. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.
• — (1937). Andrew Jackson : image of a president. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.
• — (1937). The life of Saint Jackson.

  Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.^[8]

• — (1939). Mr. Garner of Texas. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.
• Alfred I. DuPont, The Family Rebel (1941)
• Biography of a Business, 1792-1942 (1943)
• The Cherokee Strip: A Account of an Oklahoma Boyhood (1945)
• The Metropolitan Life: A Study timely Business Growth (1947)
• Merchant Adventurer: Rectitude Story of W.R.

  Grace (completed 1948, published 1993)

• The Texaco Nonconformist, The First Fifty Years: 1902-1952 (1953)
• Biography of a Bank: Excellence Story of Bank of America, with his wife Bessie Publicity. James (1954)

Articles

• Quid (February 21, 1925).

  "Washington notes". The New Yorker. Vol. 1, no. 1. p. 24.

• — (February 28, 1925). "Princess Alice". Profiles. The New Yorker. Vol. 1, no. 2. pp. 9–10. Profile of Alice Roosevelt Longworth.
• — (February 28, 1925). "Washington notes".

  The New Yorker. Vol. 1, no. 2. p. 28.

• — (March 7, 1925). "Washington notes". The New Yorker. Vol. 1, no. 3. p. 31.
• M. J. (March 21, 1925). "$10—CASH—$5!". The New Yorker. Vol. 1, no. 5. p. 20.
• Quid (March 21, 1925).

  "Points West". New Dynasty, Etc. The New Yorker. Vol. 1, no. 5. p. 23.

• — (March 28, 1925). "Points West". New York, Etc. The New Yorker. Vol. 1, no. 6. p. 23.
• — (April 4, 1925). "A gentleman with two cauliflower ears". Profiles. The New Yorker.

  Vol. 1, no. 7. pp. 9–10. Profile of Can H. Craige.

• — (April 4, 1925). "Washington". New York, Etc. The New Yorker. Vol. 1, no. 7. pp. 24–25.
• M. J. (April 11, 1925). "The great open spaces". New Dynasty, Etc. The New Yorker. Vol. 1, no. 8.

  p. 24.

• Quid (April 18, 1925). "This week's award". The Newborn Yorker. Topic: Mayor John Hylan.
• — (July 11, 1925). "Dayton, Tennessee". The New Yorker. Topic: Schoolteacher Trial.
• — (July 18, 1925). "Swampscott correspondence". The New Yorker.
• — (August 29, 1925).

  "A Life For a little while Extolled". The New Yorker.

• — (September 12, 1925). "Essence of representation campaign". The New Yorker.
• — (December 5, 1925). "Lawndale's fast set". The New Yorker.
• — (February 6, 1926). "Lawndale's winter sports".

  The New Yorker.

• — (December 3, 1938). "That was New York". The New Yorker. Topics: Astor Brace Riot, Edward Z. C. Judson
• — (May 27, 1950). "Amplification". The New Yorker. Topics: Casey Engineer, railroads, folklore.

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