K. Jack Bauer - Early Life and Education

Early Life and Education

The son of Charles August Bauer, an engineer, and Isabelle Fairbanks, Jack Bauer attended Harvard University, where he completed his bachelor of arts degree in 1948. He went on to graduate study at Indiana University, where he earned his M.A. in 1949 with a thesis on "United States naval shipbuilding programs, 1775-1860" and his Ph.D. degree in 1953 with a dissertation on "United States naval operations during the Mexican War."

On 18 August 1951, he married Dorothy Sargent, with whom he had three children, Eric, Neil, and Anne.

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