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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 Citadale: 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 Citadale: 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>​

 

In the fall of 1964, Bayliss published "Post-Reconstruction Repudiation: Evil Blot or Financial Necessity?" in the ''[[The Arkansas Historical Quarterly]]'', a study of the public debt that was accumulated during the era of Reconstruction and its subsequent repudiation by the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Redeemer state government.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DCgquh5Wrm4C&pg=PA225&lpg=PA225&dq=Garland+E.+Bayliss&source=bl&ots=be494youC3&sig=zMiQdtC9jJIFgVK2Ufx3mzhs1uQ&hl=en&ei=d-kTMfoLoP_8Abhy9WyDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CCoQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=Garland%20E.%20Bayliss&f=false.|author=John Michael Giggie|title=After Redemption: Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875-1915,|date=2008|pages=243–259|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=[[New York City]]|accessdate=June 27, 2015}}</ref>​

In the fall of 1964, Bayliss published "Post-Reconstruction Repudiation: Evil Blot or Financial Necessity?" in ''The Arkansas Historical Quarterly,'' a study of the public debt that was accumulated during the era of Reconstruction and its subsequent repudiation by the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Redeemer state government.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DCgquh5Wrm4C&pg=PA225&lpg=PA225&dq=Garland+E.+Bayliss&source=bl&ots=be494youC3&sig=zMiQdtC9jJIFgVK2Ufx3mzhs1uQ&hl=en&ei=d-kTMfoLoP_8Abhy9WyDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CCoQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=Garland%20E.%20Bayliss&f=false.|author=John Michael Giggie|title=After Redemption: Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875-1915,|date=2008|pages=243–259|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=[[New York City]]|accessdate=June 27, 2015}}</ref>​

 

In the fall of 1975, Bayliss published "The Arkansas State Penitentiary Under Democratic Control, 1874–1896," also in ''The Arkansas Historical Quarterly.''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=3485|title=Penal Systems: The Arkansas State Penitentiary Under Democratic Control, 1874–1896|publisher=''[[The Arkansas Historical Quarterly]]''|date=Autumn 1975|pages=195–213|accessdate=June 26, 2015}}</ref>​

In the fall of 1975, Bayliss published "The Arkansas State Penitentiary Under Democratic Control, 1874–1896," also in ''The Arkansas Historical Quarterly.''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=3485|title=Penal Systems: The Arkansas State Penitentiary Under Democratic Control, 1874–1896|publisher=''[[The Arkansas Historical Quarterly]]''|date=Autumn 1975|pages=195–213|accessdate=June 26, 2015}}</ref>​

 

In 1978, Bayliss received the TAMU Distinguished Achievement Award in the area of student relations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dof.tamu.edu/sites/default/files/faculty_awards/AFS_U_Previous_Winners.pdf|title=All Winners of The Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Awards|publisher=dof.tamu.edu|date=October 2012|accessdate=June 26, 2015}}</ref> Though he retired from TAMU in 1986 as professor emeritus, he continued to teach part-time until 1992. He was the director of the General Studies Program and Academic Services from 1978 to 1986. He was the founder of the Texas A&M Mentors program.<ref name=bio/>​

In 1978, Bayliss received the TAMU Distinguished Achievement Award in the area of student relations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dof.tamu.edu/sites/default/files/faculty_awards/AFS_U_Previous_Winners.pdf|title=All Winners of The Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Awards|publisher=dof.tamu.edu|date=October 2012|accessdate=June 26, 2015}}</ref> Though he retired from TAMU in 1986 as professor emeritus, he continued to teach part-time until 1992. He was the director of the General Studies Program and Academic Services from 1978 to 1986. He was the founder of the Texas A&M Mentors program.<ref name=bio/>​

 

He served on numerous graduate student committees during his long tenure at TAMU. Historian Dan Flores acknowledges Bayliss's service in the forward to his 2001 book, ''The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains.''<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N0nyEx7LjQAC&pg=PP17&lpg=PP17&dq=Garland+Bayliss&source=bl&ots=QdgyITik7v&sig=5XMWkb1TBQe_Eehw5XVkvygPERI&hl=en&ei=JUQmTNTQB4T78AbDxZj3Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CCwQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=Garland%20Bayliss&f=false|title=The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains|publisher=[[University of Oklahoma]] Press|location=Norman, [[Oklahoma]]|date=2001|page=xi|author=[[Dan Flores]]|accessdate= June 26, 2015}}</ref>​

He served on numerous graduate student committees during his long tenure at TAMU. Historian Dan Flores acknowledges Bayliss's service in the forward to his 2001 book, ''The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains.''<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N0nyEx7LjQAC&pg=PP17&lpg=PP17&dq=Garland+Bayliss&source=bl&ots=QdgyITik7v&sig=5XMWkb1TBQe_Eehw5XVkvygPERI&hl=en&ei=JUQmTNTQB4T78AbDxZj3Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CCwQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=Garland%20Bayliss&f=false|title=The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains|publisher=[[University of Oklahoma]] Press|location=Norman, [[Oklahoma]]|date=2001|page=xi|author=[[Dan Flores]]|accessdate= June 26, 2015}}</ref>

 

==Personal life==​

==Personal life==

Bayliss was a booster of all types of TAMU sports and was from 1987 to 1988 the president of the Bryan chapter of Rotary International. He was a [[Sunday school]] teacher at the First [[United Methodist]] Church of Bryan, at which he was the chairman of the building committee for the Christian Life Center. Bayliss was involved too in the Brazos Valley Arts Council and the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra in College Station.<ref name=bio/> He was a director of the Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History in Bryan,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://brazosvalleymuseum.org/about/board-trustees|title=Board of Trustees|publisher=Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History|accessdate=June 27, 2015}}</ref> for which his talent as a low-key fundraiser proved particularly helpful over the years.<ref name=bio/>​

Bayliss was a booster of all types of TAMU sports and was from 1987 to 1988 the president of the Bryan chapter of Rotary International. He was a [[Sunday school]] teacher at the First [[United Methodist]] Church of Bryan, at which he was the chairman of the building committee for the Christian Life Center. Bayliss was involved too in the Brazos Valley Arts Council and the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra in College Station.<ref name=bio/> He was a director of the Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History in Bryan,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://brazosvalleymuseum.org/about/board-trustees|title=Board of Trustees|publisher=Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History|accessdate=June 27, 2015}}</ref> for which his talent as a low-key fundraiser proved particularly helpful over the years.<ref name=bio/>​

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