Albert Craig Baird

Albert Craig Baird (also A. Craig Baird , born October 20, 1883 in Vevay , Switzerland County , Indiana , United States ; † March 18, 1979 in Iowa City , Johnson County , Iowa , United States) was an American rhetoric - and speech scholars .

Life

Family and education

Albert Craig Baird, son of William John Baird and Sarah Hedden Baird, graduated from high school in his native Vevay. After a one-year professional career, he enrolled at Wabash College in Crawfordsville , a 1907 he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts . Albert Craig Baird studied in immediate succession at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago , then at the Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan , where he graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity with the grade magna cum laude from. In 1912 he earned a Master of Arts in English and Rhetoric from Columbia University .

Albert Craig Baird, a member of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America , married Marion Peirce on June 25, 1923. The daughter Mary Barbara came from the relationship. Baird died in March 1979 at the age of 95. He found his final resting place in Memory Gardens Cemetery in Iowa City.

Professional background

Albert Craig Baird took up a position as an instructor in English at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware in 1910, and in 1911 he moved to Dartmouth College in Hanover in the same capacity . In 1913, Baird followed a call as Professor of Rhetoric and Argumentation at Bates College in Lewiston . In 1925 he moved with his family to Iowa City, where he was appointed Associate Professor of Speech at the State University of Iowa , and in 1928 he was appointed Full Professor. Baird, who served as director of the Iowa High School Forensic League from 1925 to 1948, retired in 1952 . He was also a visiting professor at Florida State University , the University of Washington , the University of Missouri, and Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and Professor of English at Columbia University's summer courses in 1924, 1925, 1931, and 1937.

Albert Craig Baird is one of the most important rhetoric and speech scholars in the United States of his time. He presided over the National Association of Teachers of Speech in 1939. Baird was a member of the Masonic and American Honorary Academic Societies Phi Beta Kappa , Pi Kappa Delta, and Delta Sigma Rho. In 1932, Baird received an honorary doctorate from Wabash College.

Publications

author

• together with Lester Thonssen: Speech Criticism: The Development of Standards for Rhetorical Appraisal. Ronald Press Co., New York, 1948
• Argumentation, Discussion and Deabate. in: McGraw-Hill Series in Speech. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1950
• together with Franklin Hayward Knower: Essentials of General Speech. in: McGraw-Hill Series in Speech. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1952
• American Public Addresses, 1740-1952. in: McGraw-Hill Series in Speech. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1956
• Rhetoric: A Philosophical Inquiry. Ronald Press Co., New York, 1965

editor

• Representative American speeches (annually). HW Wilson, New York, 1937-59.
• CA Goodrich's Select British Eloquence. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, Ill., 1963

literature

• Who's Who in America: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women. : Volume 28 (1954-1955), Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1955, p. 118.
• Who's Who in America: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women. : Volume 33 (1964-1965). Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1964, p. 93.
• Who Was Who in America. : Volume VII, 1977–1981 with world notables . Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1981, p. 24.
• Frederik Ohles, Shirley M. Ohles, John G. Ramsay: Biographical Dictionary of Modern American Educators. Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1997, p. 13.

Web links

• Albert Craig Baird in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Papers of A. Craig Baird on the University of Iowa Libraries website; accessed on September 27, 2016