AKA Charles Grier Sellers

Born: 9-Sep-1923
Birthplace: Charlotte, NC

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Historian

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: James K. Polk

Military service: US Army (10th Mountain Div., 1943-45, Staff Sgt.)

    University: BA, Harvard University (1945)
    University: PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1950)
    Assistant Professor: History, University of Maryland (1950-51)
    Assistant Professor: History, Princeton University (1951-58)
    Professor: History, University of California at Berkeley (1958-90)

    Southern Historical Association
 
    Bancroft Prize 1967 for James K. Polk: Continentalist, 1843-1846
    Guggenheim Fellowship 1963

Author of books:
James K. Polk (1957-66, biography)
The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 (1991, history)

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