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Thomas Green Clemson (July 1, 1807 – April 6, 1888) was an American politician and statesman, serving as Chargés d'Affaires to Belgium, and United States Superintendent of Agriculture. He served in the Confederate Army and founded Clemson University in South Carolina.
Thomas Green Clemson, the University’s founder and namesake, was as complex as the times in which he lived. In his 80 years, he achieved fame as a diplomat, an agriculturalist and a mining engineer. Clemson was a renaissance man whose hobbies included music, art and the classics of the ancient world.
La Universidad Clemson (en inglés: Clemson University), denominada así en recuerdo de su fundador, Thomas Green Clemson, es una universidad pública ubicada en Clemson, en el estado estadounidense de Carolina del Sur.
Contents. Thomas Green Clemson. American philanthropist. Learn about this topic in these articles: establishment of Clemson University. In Clemson University. Upon his death in 1888, Thomas Green Clemson donated land and money to establish an agricultural college in South Carolina.
The Clemson story | History. Clemson was founded in 1889 through a bequest from Thomas Green Clemson, a Philadelphia-born, European-educated engineer, musician and artist who married John C. Calhoun’s daughter, Anna Maria, and eventually settled at her family plantation in South Carolina.
15 de abr. de 2016 · Engineer, agriculturalist, college founder. Thomas Green Clemson IV was born in Philadelphia on July 1, 1807, the third of six children of Thomas Green Clemson III, a prosperous merchant, and Elizabeth Baker. He studied at schools in Philadelphia and at the American Literary, Scientific, and Military Academy in Norwich, Vermont.
To introduce us to this man, fifteen scholars and specialists of history, science, agriculture, engineering, music, art, diplomacy, law, and communications come together to address Clemson's multifaceted life, the century and issues that helped shape him, and his ongoing influence today.
