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Line 1: − {{Infobox person − | name=Thomas Duckett Boyd, Sr. − | image=Thomas Duckett Boyd of LA.jpg − | caption= Boyd as LSU president after 1900 − | birth_date=January 20, 1854 − | birth_place=Wytheville, Wythe County<br> − [[Virginia]], USA − | death_date=November 2, 1932 (aged) 78) − | death_place=[[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]] − | resting_place=Magnolia Cemetery in [[Baton Rouge]] − | occupation=Educator<br> − President of [[Northwestern State University]] at [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]], Louisiana<br> − President of [[Louisiana State University]] at Baton Rouge − | nationality=[[United States|American]] − |alma_mater=[[Louisiana State University]] − | spouse=Annie Foules Fuqua Boyd (married, 1882-1931, her death) − '''Children''':<br> − Thomas Boyd, Jr.<br> − David French Boyd<br> − Jeannette Foules Boyd<br> − Minerva French Boyd Howell<br> − Henry Cecil Boyd <br> − '''Parents''':<br> − Thomas J. and Minerva A. French Boyd<br> − '''Relatives''':<br> − David French Boyd (brother)}} − − '''Thomas Duckett Boyd, Sr.''' (January 20, 1854 – November 2, 1932), was an [[United States|American]] [[educator]] who was from 1896 to 1926 the president of [[Louisiana State University]] in the capital icty of [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]]. Earlier, from 1888 to 1896, he headed [[Northwestern State University]], then known as Louisiana Normal, a teacher-training institute in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]]. − − ==Biography== − Boyd was born in Wytheville in Wyeth County in southwestern [[Virginia]], a son of Thomas J. Boyd and the former Minerva A. French. He was privately educated at the Howard Shriver school in Wytheville and in 1872 received his bachelor's degrees from LSU. After a year of legal studies, he was named in 1874 adjunct professor of mathematics at LSU. In 1875, he was elected Commandant of Cadets by the LSU Board of Supervisors. He was a professor of [[English language|English]] and later [[history]] and English literature. He was an interim LSU president in 1886, two years before he relocated to Natchitoches to head Northwestern State University. He returned to LSU as president in 1896 and remained in that position for the remaining thirty years of his long academic career.<ref name=bio>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Z5YNz-kNZgsC&pg=PA156&lpg=PA156&dq=Thomas+Duckett+Boyd+of+Baton+Rouge&source=bl&ots=_2B-h6CDqp&sig=6aJzAqSb4dDU81aq11sk-vxOAjI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_MVJVKrTCI2zyASLioGQBg&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=Thomas%20Duckett%20Boyd%20of%20Baton%20Rouge&f=false|title=Biographical Dictionary of American Educators, Vol. I|author=John F. Ohles, ed.|publisher=Greenwood Publishers|location=Westport, [[Connecticut]]|year=1978|page=156|isbn=0-8371-9893-3|accessdate=October 24, 2014}}</ref> − − At LSU, Boyd created the LSU Law Center and the Department of Education. He reorganized departments into colleges and supported agricultural programs. He arranged for permanent university funding through taxation. In 1904, he opened LSU to women. To encourage professional educators and based on his experiences at Northwestern State University, he organized teacher training institutes. He worked for successful passage of legislation guaranteeing public schools a stream of state funding.<ref name=bio/> − − Boyd was a founder of the Louisiana Chautauqua, an educational lecture series, also supported by such figures as the historian [[Henry E. Chambers]] and [[J. S. Keeny]], the early 20th century president of [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]]. From 1919 to 1920, Boyd was the president of the National Association of State Universities. From 1921 to 1922, he headed the National Association of Land Grant Colleges. He was an organizer of the Louisiana Education Association. Boyd received an honorary degree from [[Tulane University]] in [[New Orleans]].<ref name=bio/> − − Boyd's time as LSU president paralleled the peak of the post-[[American Civil War|Civil War]] of the Lost Cause of the[[Confederate States of America|Confederacy. Boyd's older brother, David French Boyd, was a Confederate officer who had served on the original LSU faculty when the school was based in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]] in Rapides Parish in Central Louisiana and under the first LSU president and subsequent [[Union Army]] [[General]] [[William Tecumseh Sherman]]. David Boyd was the first LSU president at the time his brother Thomas began his own long-term association with the institution. − − Since its creation in 1953, the Boyd Professorship at LSU, named for both David French Boyd and Thomas Duckett Boyd, has honored scholars in various fields of study.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ref-raff.wikispaces.com/Louisiana+-+LSU+-+Boyd+Professors|title=Louisiana - LSU - Boyd professors|publisher=wikispaces.com|accessdate=October 23, 2014}}</ref> After Thomas Boyd's presidency, the Boyd Professor of History T. Harry Williams(1909-1979) did much to debunk the premises and defenders of The Lost Cause.<ref name=hbmcsween>{{cite web|url=http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2000/autumn/mcsween-t-harry-williams/|author=Harold B. McSween|title=T. Harry Williams: A Remembrance|publisher=''Virginia Quarterly Review: A National Journal of Literature & Discussion''|accessdate=July 13, 2009}}</ref> − − In 1882, Boyd wed the former Annie Foules Fuqua of Baton Rouge, and the couple had five children: Thomas Duckett Boyd, Jr. (1882-1964), David French Boyd, II (1884-1885), Jeannette Foules Boyd (1886-1887), Minerva French Boyd Howell (1888-1973), and Henry Cecil Boyd (1895-1914), only two of whom lived past the age of twenty.<ref>"Thomas Duckett Boyd", ''Who's Who in the World, 1912</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/thomas-duckett-boyd-family-papers-1860-1966/oclc/247539519|title=Thomas Duckett Boyd family papers, 1860-1966|publisher=worldcat.org|accessdate=October 24, 2014}}</ref> At the time of his death, Boyd was the LSU president-[[emeritus]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9404E2DF1E31E333A25750C0A9679D946394D6CF|title=THOMAS DUCKETT BOYD.; President-Emeritus of Louisiana State University Dies at 78|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|date=November 3, 1932|page=24 of Amusements/Art|accessdate=October 23, 2014}}</ref> Mrs. Boyd died a year and a half before the passing of her husband in Baton Rouge. The Boyds and all of their children are interred at Magnolia Cemetery in Baton Rouge.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=58176446|title=Col. Thomas Duckett Boyd, Sr.|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 3, 2020}}</ref> − − In 1935, Marcus Manley Wilkerson published through the LSU Press ''Thomas Duckett Boyd: The Story of a Southern Educator.''<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books/about/Thomas_Duckett_Boyd.html?id=PJhDAAAAIAAJ|title=Thomas Duckett Boyd: The Story of a Southern Educator|publisher=[[Louisiana State University Press]]|location=[[Baton Rouge, Louisiana]]|date=1935|pages=374|accessdate=October 24, 2014}}</ref> Thomas D. Boyd Hall, the LSU administrative building, is named in his honor.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://foursquare.com/v/lsu--thomas-d-boyd-hall/4b990b39f964a520a05d35e3|title=LSU - Thomas D. Boyd Hall|publisher=foursquare.com|accessdate=October 23, 2014}}</ref> − − {{DEFAULTSORT:Boyd, Thomas Duckett}} − [[Category:Louisiana People]] − [[Category:Virginia]] − [[Category:Educators]] − [[Category:Historians]] − [
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