Paul H. Bergeron (b. 1938)

Biography

Bergeron was born in Alexandria, Louisiana, and attended Lousiana College as an undergraduate. He took his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Vanderbilt University where he taught from 1965-72. Since 1972 he has taught at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where he now lives.

Bibliography

Non-Fiction

• The Jacksonian Party on Trial: Presidential Politics in Tennessee, 1836-1856 (doctoral dissertation, Vanderbilt University, 1965)
• Paths of the Past: Tennessee, 1770-1970 (1979)
• Antebellum Politics in Tennessee (1982)
• The Presidency of James K. Polk (1987)
• Tennesseans and Their History (with Stephen V. Ash and Jeanette Keith, 1999)

Sources and Links

• UTK homepage
• Description of The Presidency of James K. Polk

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