Draft:Thomas Duckett Boyd


Thomas Duckett Boyd (January 20, 1854 – November 2, 1932) was  the president of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge for 30 years, from 1896 until 1926.

He became known as "Colonel Boyd" in1875 when he was elected Commandant of Cadets at the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning & Military Academy which would later become Louisiana State University.

Boyd's older brother, David French Boyd, had served on the original Seminary faculty when it was based in Pineville in Central Louisiana under its first superintendent / president, William Tecumseh Sherman who subsequently became a renowned Union Army General.

From 1919 to 1920, Boyd was the president of the National Association of State Universities. From 1921 to 1922, he headed the National Association of Land Grant Colleges. He was an organizer of the Louisiana Education Association. [1]

  1. ^ "The Advocate".

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