Robert Allen Rutland (1922–2000)

Born in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, Dr. Robert A. Rutland served in the Pacific Theater with the U.S. Army during World War II. He went on to earn his bachelor's degree in journalism from The University of Oklahoma ('47), his master's in history from Cornell University ('50), and his Ph.D. in history from Vanderbilt University ('53). Dr. Rutland was an esteemed scholar and a member of the history faculty at the University of Virginia from 1971 to 1987. When The Papers of James Madison collection was relocated to the University of Virginia, the collection's advisory board appointed Rutland as its editor. Nine volumes were published under his supervision.

After retiring from the Madison Papers, Dr. Rutland served on the faculty of The University of Tulsa's history department from 1987 to 1990 and continued a productive career, publishing a number of volumes on James Madison and a memoir of his early childhood in A Boyhood in the Dust Bowl (1997). Dr. Rutland passed away in December 2000. He had taught history for 43 years at the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of Virginia; and The University of Tulsa. (https://chapman.utulsa.edu/donor/rober...)