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词条 Mark T. Carleton
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  1. Background

  2. Academic career

  3. See also

  4. References

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| occupation = Historian
Professor at Louisiana State University
| yearsactive = 1964-1995
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1935|2|7}}
| birth_place = Baton Rouge
East Baton Rouge Parish
Louisiana, USA
| death_date = {{death date and age|1995|10|2|1935|2|7}}
| death_place = Baton Rouge, Louisiana{{citation needed|date=August 2018}}
| residence =Baton Rouge, Louisiana
|spouse =Maureen O'Hearn Carleton (married 1963-1982, divorced)
|children =

Michael Owen Carleton

Mark Albert Carleton


|alma_mater =Yale University
Stanford University
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Mark Thomas Carleton (February 7, 1935 – October 2, 1995),[1] was an historian who specialized in political studies of Louisiana. From 1964 until his death at the age of sixty, he was a professor at Louisiana State University in his native Baton Rouge.

Background

Carleton received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1957 from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. He served thereafter in the United States Marine Corps from 1957 to 1960. He earned a Master of Arts in 1964 and a Ph.D. in 1970, both from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.[2]

Carleton served from 1973 to 1978 on the "good government" group, the Public Affairs Research Council. He left LSU in the 1976-1977 academic year to be the PAR director but returned to the history department in 1978. The previous PAR director Edward J. Steimel, in 1975 had founded the trade association, the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry.

In 1963, Carleton married the former Maureen O'Hearn, and they had three sons: Roderick Lewis, Michael Owen, and Mark Albert. The Carletons divorced in 1982.[2]

Academic career

In 1971, Carleton published his Politics and Punishment: The History of the Louisiana State Penal System (1971), with emphasis on the large prison farm at Angola, bordered on three sides by the Mississippi River. Carleton reports that nearly "overnight" in Louisiana and several other southern prisons, the inmate population became predominantly African American.[3] The prison was populated at first mostly by young men from farming backgrounds. Carleton claims that agriculture became key to southern prisons in the era after the American Civil War. Convict labor and farm work became "synonymous terms in the public and political mind."[4]

In 1975, Carleton co-edited with sociologist Perry H. Howard and Joseph B. Parker the anthology Readings in Louisiana Politics. His contribution includes a study of the three failed gubernatorial campaigns in 1956, 1960, and 1964 of the late New Orleans Mayor deLesseps Story Morrison.[2]

Carleton's other publications include:

  • River Capital: An Illustrated History of Baton Rouge (1981)[5]
  • Louisiana Politics: Festival in a Labyrinth (1982)[2]
  • Louisiana: A History (co-author, 1984)[2]

In 1989, Carleton lauded the start of the Buddy Roemer gubernatorial administration. He claimed that Roemer, who failed to gain reelection in 1991, had changed the mind-set of the state so that the citizens would understand that henceforth they had to foot their own tax bills, rather than depend on business, particularly petroleum interests, to carry the burden. He also hailed Roemer's early attempt to manage the state budget.[6]

Carleton was active in the establishment at LSU of the T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History, named for T. Harry Williams, the Midwestern-born historian known particularly for his studies of the American Civil War and Huey Pierce Long, Jr.[2] In 1992, he was elected president of the Louisiana Historical Association.[7]

Carleton's papers, consisting mainly of printed material, typescripts, and correspondence, were deposited with LSU. The materials include his career as a professor as well as his association with PAR.[2]

See also

{{Portal|Biography|Louisiana|United States Marine Corps|History}}

Carleton's LSU historian colleagues included:

  • Edwin Adams Davis
  • John L. Loos
  • Burl Noggle
  • T. Harry Williams

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/newssdi|title=Social Security Death Index|publisher=ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=July 23, 2010}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/findaid/c4644.html|title=Mark T. Carleton Papers|publisher=lib.lsu.edu|accessdate=July 23, 2010}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FJp7dKVIl2UC&pg=PA148&lpg=PA148&dq=Rollo+C.+Lawrence&source=bl&ots=hQAvyuLGI-&sig=JnN17KqcyZ4zPse8mQnvzEr6WuE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CFQQ6AEwDmoVChMI0qvV4pLvxgIVA_eACh0QHgDr#v=onepage&q=Rollo%20C.%20Lawrence&f=false|title=Politics and Punishment: The History of the Louisiana State Penal System|author=Mark T. Carleton|publisher=Louisiana State University Press|location=Baton Rouge, Louisiana|date=1971|isbn=0-8071-0940-1|accessdate=July 22, 2015}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.burkfoster.com/plantationdays.htm|title=Plantation Days at Angola: Major James and the Origins of Modern Corrections in Louisiana (November 1993)|publisher=burkfoster.com|accessdate=July 23, 2010}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ecampus.com/book/9780965475402|title=River Capital: An Illustrated History of Baton Rouge|publisher=ecampus.com|accessdate=July 23, 2010}}
6. ^"Historian grades governor highly", Minden Press-Herald, March 31, 1989, p. 1
7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.lahistory.org/site8.php|title=Presidents of the Louisiana Historical Association|publisher=lahistory.org|accessdate=July 21, 2010}}
{{s-start}}{{succession box
| before=Judith F. Gentry
| title=President of the Louisiana Historical Association

Mark Thomas Carleton


| years=1992–1993
| after=Warren M. Billings
}}{{s-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Carleton, Mark T.}}

11 : 1935 births|1995 deaths|Historians of the United States|American non-fiction writers|Writers from Baton Rouge, Louisiana|Yale University alumni|Stanford University alumni|Louisiana State University faculty|United States Marines|History of Louisiana|20th-century American historians

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