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After he left the Navy, Bayliss was until 1972 a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy Reserve.<ref name=bio/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.navycthistory.com/RIPdatesort.pdf|title=List of deceased Navy officers|publisher=navycthistory.com|accessdate=June 27, 2015}}</ref>​

After he left the Navy, Bayliss was until 1972 a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy Reserve.<ref name=bio/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.navycthistory.com/RIPdatesort.pdf|title=List of deceased Navy officers|publisher=navycthistory.com|accessdate=June 27, 2015}}</ref>​

 

==Educational career==​

==Career in education==

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Back in civilian life, Bayliss completed his undergraduate degree in [[biology]] in 1947 at UA-Monticello. He taught school briefly in Dermott in Chicot County, also in southeastern Arkansas. He and his brother, James, relocated to Orange, Texas, in the far southeastern part of the state, to work for [[DuPont]] chemical company. There he met his wife, the former Mary Evelyn Futrell (born October 1927), then a medical technologist at Orange Hospital. The couple married on May 5, 1950, and Bayliss enrolled at the [[University of Texas at Austin|University of Texas]] in the capital city of [[Austin]], where he obtained his [[Master of Arts]] degree in history. He and Mary relocated to [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]], [[South Carolina]], where he taught at [[The Citadel|The Citade:  The Military College of South Carolina]]. He joined the TAMU faculty in 1957, where he remained for thirty-five years as professor of [[United States Constitution|constitutional]] and [[Reconstruction]] studies. While at TAMU, he received the [[Ph.D.]] in 1972 from the University of Texas.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/history/alumni/by-year/1970s.php|title=University of Texas Department of History: List of Doctoral Students: 1972|publisher=utexas.edu|accessdate=June 26, 2015}}</ref> His dissertation is entitled ''Public Affairs in Arkansas, 1874-1896,'' which includes a study of the Agricultural Wheel, an agrarian reform movement and such issues as the [[poll tax]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2091|title=Agricultural Wheel|publisher=''The Encyclopedia of Arkansas''|accessdate=May 31, 2020}}</ref>​

Back in civilian life, Bayliss completed his undergraduate degree in [[biology]] in 1947 at UA-Monticello. He taught school briefly in Dermott in Chicot County, also in southeastern Arkansas. He and his brother, James, relocated to Orange, Texas, in the far southeastern part of the state, to work for [[DuPont]] chemical company. There he met his wife, the former Mary Evelyn Futrell (born October 1927), then a medical technologist at Orange Hospital. The couple married on May 5, 1950, and Bayliss enrolled at the [[University of Texas at Austin|University of Texas]] in the capital city of [[Austin]], where he obtained his [[Master of Arts]] degree in history. He and Mary relocated to [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]], [[South Carolina]], where he taught at [[The Citadel|The Citade:  The Military College of South Carolina]]. He joined the TAMU faculty in 1957, where he remained for thirty-five years as professor of [[United States Constitution|constitutional]] and [[Reconstruction]] studies. While at TAMU, he received the [[Ph.D.]] in 1972 from the University of Texas.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/history/alumni/by-year/1970s.php|title=University of Texas Department of History: List of Doctoral Students: 1972|publisher=utexas.edu|accessdate=June 26, 2015}}</ref> His dissertation is entitled ''Public Affairs in Arkansas, 1874-1896,'' which includes a study of the Agricultural Wheel, an agrarian reform movement and such issues as the [[poll tax]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2091|title=Agricultural Wheel|publisher=''The Encyclopedia of Arkansas''|accessdate=May 31, 2020}}</ref>​