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Thomas Duckett Boyd (January 20, 1854 – November 2, 1932) was the president of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge for 30 years, from 1896 until 1926.
He became known as "Colonel Boyd" in 1875 when he was elected Commandant of Cadets at the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning & Military Academy which would later become Louisiana State University. [1]
Boyd's older brother, David French Boyd, had served on the original Seminary faculty when it was based in Pineville in Central Louisiana, under its first superintendent / president, William Tecumseh Sherman, who subsequently became the renowned Union Army General. David Boyd and William T. Sherman maintained a lifelong, close friendship.
From 1919 to 1920, Boyd was the president of the National Association of State Universities. From 1921 to 1922, he headed the National Association of Land Grant Colleges. He was an organizer of the Louisiana Education Association. [2]
- ^ "LSU Military Museum - Thomas Boyd". LSU Military Museum. Retrieved May 1, 2024.
- ^ "Obituary and articles commemorating TD Boyd in The Advocate". The Advocate Archives. 3 November 1932. Retrieved May 1, 2024.
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