- American writer, biographer and historian John Morton Blum was born in New York City in 1921. He graduated from Harvard University in 1943 with an A.B., received his M.A. from the university in 1947 and his PhD in 1950. He later became an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 1956 he joined the faculty of Yale University as a history professor and from 1963-64 was a Put Professor of American History at Cambridge University in Massachusetts. He served in the US Naval Reserve from 1943-46, with the rank of lieutenant. He has written several volumes, including a biography, on US President Theodore Roosevelt.
He died in North Branford, Connecticut, in 2011.- IMDb Mini Biography By: frankfob2@yahoo.com
- SpousePamela Zink(June 28, 1944 - October 17, 2011) (his death, 3 children)
- From 1957-91 he was a professor at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where his students included Henry Louis Gates Jr., US Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, former President George W. Bush and historian David Greenberg.
- He was a professor for nine years at Massachussets Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- He is survived by his son, Thomas Blum, two daughters, Pamela Blum of Kingston, New York and Ann Blum of Arlington, Massachusetts; three grandchildren; and his wife, Pamela Blum of North Branford, Connecticut.
- He served in the United States Navy during World War II. He returned to Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts to earn a Master's degree in 1947 and a Ph.D. in 1950.
- He was the son of Morton Gustav Blum and Edna LeVino and the oldest of three children. The family moved to Long Island from New York City. He attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in 1943.
- [on teaching President George W. Bush at Yale] I did not have the foggiest recollection of him.
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