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'''Foster Jay Taylor''', known as '''F. Jay Taylor''' (August 9, 1923 – May 15, 2011),<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=Who's Who in American Education: A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Living Educators of the United States|author=R. C. Cook|date=1963|volume=21|publisher=Who's Who in American Education|issn=0083-9418|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dKugAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=August 24, 2015}}</ref><ref name="thenewsstar">{{cite web|url=http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20110515/NEWS01/110515007/Former-Tech-president-F-Jay-Taylor-dies-87?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE|title=Local News | The News Star | thenewsstar.com|publisher=thenewsstar.com|accessdate=August 24, 2015}}</ref> was a [[historian]] who served from 1962 to 1987 as the president of [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]] in Lincoln Parish in north [[Louisiana]]. Taylor wrote books on the [[American Civil War|American]] and the [[Spanish Civil War|Spanish]] [[civil war]]s.
'''Foster Jay Taylor''', known as '''F. Jay Taylor''' (August 9, 1923 – May 15, 2011),<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=Who's Who in American Education: A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Living Educators of the United States|author=Robert Cecil Cook|date=1963|volume=21|publisher=Who's Who in American Education|issn=0083-9418|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dKugAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=August 24, 2015}}</ref><ref name="thenewsstar">{{cite web|url=http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20110515/NEWS01/110515007/Former-Tech-president-F-Jay-Taylor-dies-87?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE|title=Local News | The News Star | thenewsstar.com|publisher=thenewsstar.com|accessdate=August 24, 2015}}</ref> was a [[historian]] who served from 1962 to 1987 as the president of [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]] in Lincoln Parish in north [[Louisiana]]. Taylor wrote books on the [[American Civil War|American]] and the [[Spanish Civil War|Spanish]] [[civil war]]s.
==Background==
==Background==
December 17, 2009}}</ref> He procured his [[Ph.D.]] in history and government in 1952 from [[Tulane University]] in [[New Orleans]].<ref name=mpress/>
December 17, 2009}}</ref> He procured his [[Ph.D.]] in history and government in 1952 from [[Tulane University]] in [[New Orleans]].<ref name=mpress/>
==Louisiana Tech presidency==
==Louisiana Tech presidency==