Thomas Bayne Denègre
Thomas Bayne Denègre, Sr. (January 18, 1893 – June 1967) of New Orleans, Louisiana was captain of the Yale University sport rowing team.[1]
Biography[edit]
He was born on January 18, 1893, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was captain of the sport rowing team and graduated from Yale University in 1914.[2] He served in France as first lieutenant in the Louisiana National Guard's Washington Artillery during World War I.[3]
Denègre then attended Tulane Law School and practiced law in New Orleans. He married Alma Baldwin and had three children including Thomas Bayne Denègre, Jr.[4] He died in June 1967 in Biloxi, Mississippi.
References[edit]
- ^ "Denegre Elected Captain, Snowdon Having Resigned". New York Times. October 3, 1913. Retrieved March 24, 2011.
Charles N. Snowdon of Pittsburgh, Penn., has resigned as Captain of the Yale 'Varsity crew and Thomas B. Denegre of New Orleans has been chosen to succeed him. This announcement, coming as a complete surprise, was made at a meeting of the Blue oarsmen to-night.
- ^ The Pilgrim teacher quarterly. Congregational Publishing Society. 1919. Retrieved March 25, 2011.
When Tom Denegre was captain of the crew at Yale, he did not row in the great race against Harvard — not because the coaches displaced him, not because he was sick, simply because in Denegre's opinion there was another man who could row ...
- ^ Casso, Evans J. (1999). Louisiana Legacy: A History of the State National Guard. New Orleans, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Co. p. 126. ISBN 9781565545465. Retrieved August 3, 2022 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Thomas Bayne Denègre". Tulane University. Retrieved March 25, 2011.
Thomas Bayne Denègre was a grandson of Joseph Jones M.D. (1833–1896) of the Jones family of Liberty County, Georgia. Jones settled in New Orleans when he was appointed Chair of Chemistry and Clinical Medicine at the University of Louisiana (now Tulane University) after the Civil War. Denègre had a successful and well-publicized career at Yale University as captain of the crew team, and later entered the army during World War I and served as second lieutenant in France in 1918. He then attended Tulane Law School and practiced law in New Orleans. He married Alma Baldwin and had three children. Later in life, he moved to Biloxi, Mississippi and died there in 1967.