Religion United Methodist Name Henry Dethloff | Spouse Anne Dethloff (m. 1961) Political party Republican Party | |
Born August 10, 1934 (age 90) ( 1934-08-10 ) New OrleansOrleans Parish
Louisiana, USA Residence College Station
Brazos County, Texas Alma mater University of Texas at Austin
Northwestern State University
University of Missouri Occupation Author
Professor emeritus
Historian Children Carl Henry Dethloff
Clay Elliott Dethloff Parent(s) Carl Curt and Camelia Jordan Dethloff Education University of Missouri, Northwestern State University, University of Texas at Austin, Natchitoches Central High School People also search for Ronald A. Schorn, Keith L Bryant, John A. Adams, Gerald D. Nash Books Texas Aggies go to war, Texas A&M University, A special kind of doctor, A bookmark, A history of the American | ||
Henry Clay Dethloff (born August 10, 1934) is a professor emeritus of history at Texas A&M University in College Station who has written more than two dozen books on topics ranging from the space program to agriculture, American business, and Texas A&M itself, the institution with which he was primarily affiliated during his academic career.
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Background
Dethloff, the son of Carl Curt Dethloff (1900–1977) and the former Camelia Jordan (1907–2000), was born in New Orleans and reared in Natchitoches, an historic city in north central Louisiana. His brother, Carl Richard "Dick" Dethloff (1929–2007), a graduate of Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, became a prominent insurance agent in Shreveport, Louisiana, where he lived from 1957 until his death with his wife, the former Bobbie Winstead (1931-2017), a native of Jackson, Mississippi, and a member of the Shreveport Club. Dethloff also has a sister, Cammie D. Girand.
Dethloff graduated in 1952 from Natchitoches High School, renamed Natchitoches Central High School after desegregation. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1956, his Master of Arts from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches in 1960, and his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, in 1964. While an undergraduate at UT, he became a brother of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. He joined the TAMU faculty in 1969 and served as the department chairman from 1980 to 1985. From 1962-1968, he was, respectively, an instructor, assistant professor, and associate professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in Lafayette, then known as the University of Southwestern Louisiana.
Dethloff and his wife, the former Myrtle Anne Elliott, married on August 27, 1961. The couples resides in College Station. They have two sons, Carl Henry Dethloff and Clay Elliott Dethloff.
Publications
One of his most publicized works is A Pictorial History of Texas A & M: A Tradition in Higher Education, which was published as two titles in 1975: A Pictorial History of Texas A & M University: 1876-1976 (TAMU Press) and A Centennial History of Texas A & M University: 1876-1976 (the Association of Former Students in conjunction with TAMU Press). In the A&M history, he attributes much of the expansion of the institution and the introduction of women as students to the work of State Senator William T. "Bill" Moore, who served in the upper chamber of the legislature from 1949 to 1981.
Dethloff's other books include:
Dethloff has established extensive archives of his publication materials at the Sterling C. Evans Library at TAMU. He has been affiliated with Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Chi, and the Texas State, the Louisiana, Agriculture, and Economic history associations.