Dumas Malone

Dumas Malone (born January 10, 1892, Coldwater, Mississippi, U.S.—died December 27, 1986, Charlottesville, Virginia) was an American historian, editor, and the author of an authoritative multivolume biography of Thomas Jefferson. Malone was educated at Emory and Yale universities. He taught at Yale, Columbia, and the University of Virginia, where he was the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History. He edited the Dictionary of American Biography from 1929 to 1936 and the Political Science Quarterly from...