Dr. Richard Edwin Yates, born in Whitefish, Montana, was a History and Political Science Professor at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, from 1938-1974. In 1932, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in general business from North Carolina State in Raleigh. He then went to Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where in 1933 he received his Master of Arts degree and in 1936 his Ph.D. in American history. Dr. Yates taught at South Georgia College in Douglas for two years, and was hired by Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, in 1938. He was drafted as a private in the U. S. Army in 1943, was discharged as a captain, and resumed teaching at Hendrix. He was a member of the Arkansas Historical Association and Faulkner County Historical Society, a member of “The Book Club” in Little Rock, and for four years he had a weekly commentary on political events on Conway radio station KCON.
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