Charles Coleman Thach (March 15, 1860 – October 3, 1921) was the President of Alabama Polytechnic Institute, now known as Auburn University, from 1902 to 1920.Auburn library
Biography Charles Coleman Thach was born in Athens, Alabama, in 1860.Auburn archives He graduated from the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama, now known as Auburn University, in 1877.Encyclopedia of Alabama He became a Professor of English in 1885. He was also teaching Political Economy.David Whitten, A History of Economics and Business at Auburn University, Routledge, 1992, pp. 20-22 He was President in the same institution from 1902 to 1920.
He was a member of the American Economic Association. He was a founding member of the Alabama Library Association.
Thach was the father of historian Charles C. Thach, Jr. (1894–1966), who wrote The Creation of the Presidency, 1775–1789: A Study of Constitutional History.
Thach died in Dalton, Georgia, on October 3, 1921.
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