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Lance Banning

American historian (1942–2006) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Lance Banning (January 24, 1942 January 31, 2006) was an American historian who specialized in studying the politics of the United States' Founding Fathers. He taught mostly at the University of Kentucky.

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Banning was a native of Kansas City, Missouri. He graduated from the University of Missouri, and from Washington University in St. Louis with a master's and PhD. His 1971 dissertation was directed by John Murrin and entitled, "The quarrel with Federalism: a study in the origins and character of Republican thought".[1]

He taught American history at Brown University, and University of Kentucky.[2] He served as the Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh.[3] In 1997, he taught at the University of Groningen.[4]

He was among the scholars who was commissioned by the newly formed Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society in 1999 to review materials about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, after the 1998 DNA study was published indicating a match between the Jefferson male line and a descendant of Eston Hemings, the youngest son. The commission thought there was not sufficient evidence to conclude that Jefferson was the father of Hemings' children, and proposed his younger brother Randolph Jefferson, who had never seriously been put forward until after the 1998 DNA study.

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