Thomas D. Clark - Timeline

Timeline

• 1903 - Born in Mississippi on July 14, 1903
• 1919 - 1920 worked a 'dead end' job on a dredge boat
• 1920 - 1924 attended Choctaw County Agricultural High School
• 1925 - 1928 University of Mississippi
• 1928 - 1929 Graduate work at University of Kentucky
• 1929 - 1931 Fellowship at Duke before it was Duke University
• 1931 - 2001 70-year tenure at the University of Kentucky
• 1933 - first book published - The Beginning of the L&N (railroad) - married Martha Turner
• 1935 - rescues precious historical documents from destruction at Frankfort
• 1937 - published most famous work, A History of Kentucky
• 1957 - becomes first chair of the new Kentucky Archives Commission
• 1982 - pushes through Department for Libraries and Archives
• 1986 - helps establish Friends of Kentucky Public Archives, Inc.
• 1990 - Kentucky General Assembly names Clark - Kentucky's Historian Laureate for life
• 1992 - The Kentucky Encyclopedia published in which Clark was a "driving force"
• 1994 - Mississippi Historical Society's - B.L.C. Wailes Award
• 1999 - Kentucky History Center dedicated in April - Frankfort, Kentucky
• 2001 - Vic Hellard Jr. Award - November 14 - Kentucky Long-Term Policy Research Center
• 2005 - on June 28 Dr. Clark dies at the age of 101.