Frederic L. Paxson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Frederic L. Paxson

Pulitzer Prize for History winner

Date of Birth: 23-Feb-1877

Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 24-Oct-1948

Profession: historian, author, philosopher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Frederic Logan Paxson (February 23, 1877 in Philadelphia – October 24, 1948 in Berkeley, California) was an American historian.
He had also been President of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association.
He had undergraduate and PhD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a master's from Harvard University.
He taught at Wisconsin (1910 to 1932) as successor to Frederick Jackson Turner and the University of California-Berkeley from 1932 to 1947. As a historian he was an authority on the American frontier.
His 1925 Pulitzer Prize was for History of the American Frontier, 1763-1893.