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(1927-2013) Historian. James Sterling Young was born in Savannah, Georgia, and died in Advance Mills, Virginia. He received a Ph.D. from Columbia University.

Full Name

James Sterling Young

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline

1927

BIRTH

James Sterling Young was born in Savannah, Georgia, on October 14, 1927.

1964

OTHER

Professor Young received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in Manhattan, New York, in 1964 and then he began teaching public law and government at the university.

1966

LITWORK

The Washington Community, 1800-1828
Columbia University Press
978-0-231-02901-8
Nonfiction, winner of a Bancroft Prize in 1967.

1971

OTHER

From 1971 to 1977 Mr. Young served as a deputy provost and a vice president at Columbia University.

1982

LITWORK

Problems and Prospects of Presidential Leadership in the Nineteen-Eighties
University Press Of America
0819128384 / 978-0819128386
Nonfiction.

2013

DEATH

James Sterling Young died at his home in Advance Mills, Virginia, on August 8, 2013.

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