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A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and scholar, he is best known for his biography of Louisiana politician Huey Long. He also published Lincoln and His Generals, a study of the Civil War.He was a history professor at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge for thirty-eight years.His biography of Huey Long received both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1970.
BEFORE FAMEHe received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1937.
PERSONAL LIFEHe married his second wife, Estelle Skolfield, in 1952. From his first marriage, he had a child named Mai Frances.
The meaning of the name Williams: Son Or Servant Of William FUN FACTSHistorian T. Harry Williams were born on Wednesday, birthstone is Emerald, the seaon was Spring in the Chinese year of Rooster, it is 131 days until T. Harry Williams next birthday.
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