Biography:

Historian; university professor. Born– September 18, 1931, Bigbee. Parents–Curtis T. and Hester E. Thompson Henson.  Education– Auburn University, B.S., 1952, M.A., 1958; Tulane University, Ph.D., 1965. Taught at Grand Canyon College, 1962-1963; University of Houston, 1963-1966; Auburn University, 1966-1993. Member, Organization of American Historians, Naval History Foundation.

Source:

Directory of American Scholars, 1982.

Publication(s):

Commissioners and Commodores; the East India Squadron and American Diplomacy in China. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1982.