Garland E Bayliss

Garland E Bayliss (1924-now)

Garland Erastus Bayliss (born August 27, 1924) is a retired historian and director emeritus of academic services at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, whose research was primarily in the history of his native Arkansas and the American South. His affiliation with TAMU extended from 1956-1992. Bayliss was born in Warren in Bradley County in south Arkansas and reared in McGehee in Desha County in the southeastern corner of the state. There he attended McGehee public schools and then the University of Arkansas at Monticello in Monticello in neighboring Drew County. On November 3, 1942, Bayliss entered the United States Navy and became an ensign through the completion of the Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School at Columbia University in New York City. He first served at the New York Naval Shipyard, completed overseas duties during World War II, and was discharged from the military on August 1, 1946. Two of Bayliss' brothers also served in the war, James E. Bayliss (19161989) and Mercer E. Bayliss (born February 21, 1919) of Warren, Arkansas, the winner of eight Bronze Stars. Bayliss received his Master of Arts and Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Austin. His dissertation, completed in 1972, is entitled Public Affairs in Arkansas, 1874-1896, which includes a study of the Agricultural Wheel agrarian reform movement. In the fall of 1964, Bayliss published "Post-Reconstruction Repudiation: Evil Blot or Financial Necessity" in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly, a study of the public debt that was accumulated during the era of Reconstruction and its subsequent repudiation by the Redeemer state government. In the fall of 1975, Bayliss published "The Arkansas State Penitentiary Under Democratic Control, 18741896," also in Arkansas Historical Quarterly. In 1978, Bayliss received the TAMU Distinguished Achievement Award in the area of student relations. He also served on numerous graduate student committees during his long tenure at TAMU. Historian Dan Louie Flores (born 1948) acknowledges Bayliss's service in the forward to his 2001 book, The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains. Bayliss is tall, lanky, bestackled, and soft-spoken and is said to have born a resemblance to the economist Milton Friedman. He and his wife, the former Mary Evelyn Futrell (born October 1927), reside in College Station. They have two sons, Mark Edward Bayliss (born September 5, 1957) and his wife, Diana Lee Bayliss (born July 1, 1959), and James Fred Bayliss, an attorney, and his wife, Julie Michele Bayliss (both born ca. 1965) of Brenham, Texas.

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[Prisoners Their Own Warders]