Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker (February 6, 1879 - April 22, 1966) was a leading American historian and Edwards Professor of American History at Princeton University.
He was an effective and popular undergraduate teacher, and also carried the majority of the burden of graduate teaching for many years..
Wertenbaker was a member of the history department for 37 years and its chairman from 1928 to 1936.
In 1910, Princeton President Woodrow Wilson brought him there as a preceptor.
Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, he received his bachelor\'s and doctoral degrees from the University of Virginia, gaining a reputation for his doctoral dissertation, Patrician and Plebeian in Virginia (1910), followed by Virginia Under the Stuarts (1914), and his master work, The Planters of Colonial Virginia (1922).
Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker (February 6, 1879 - April 22, 1966) was a leading American historian and Edwards Professor of American History at Princeton University
