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William Young Thompson (October 15, 1922 – April 12, 2013)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dr. William Y. Thompson )〕 was an historian affiliated from 1955 through 1988 with Louisiana Tech University〔Dates confirmed by the Human Resources office at Louisiana Tech University.〕 at Ruston in Lincoln Parish in north Louisiana. A specialist in the history of his native American South, Thompson served as chairman of the university history department from 1965 until his retirement, when he became professor emeritus.〔 ==Background==
Thompson was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to Henry Howard Thompson, a Presbyterian pastor, and the former Frances Ellzey. He attended school in Bristol, Tennessee and at the Christian Stony Brook Preparatory School on Long Island, New York.〔 During World War II, he was from 1943-1945 a first lieutenant in the United States Army Air Corps, the forerunner of the Air Force. He served in the European Theatre of Operations. During the war, Thompson earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters.〔William Y. Thompson, ''Who's Who in America'' Vol. 42 (1982-1983), (Chicago: Marquis Publishing Company, 1983), p. 3329〕 After the war, Thompson remained in the United States Air Force Reserve and attained the rank of lieutenant colonel.〔 After the war, Thompson completed his academic studies at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, Alabama, from which he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1946. Thereafter, he obtained the Master of Arts from Emory University, a Methodist-affiliated institution in Atlanta, Georgia.〔 From 1950 to 1955, he was a professor at Presbyterian College in Clinton in Laurens County in northwestern South Carolina. While at Presbyterian College, he completed his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina.〔
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