James V. Compton

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	James V. Compton (1928- ) Professor of History at San Francisco State University Son of Lewis Compton, some time Assistant Secretary and later, Acting Secretary, of the Navy in the Cabinet of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. From 1963 to 1969 James Compton was a Lecturer in History at the University of Edinburgh, where he established the North American Studies Committee, a precursor of the more recent American Studies degree programme. From 1969 he took up a professorship at San Francisco State University from which he retired in 1995.
Soon after he retired Professor Compton decided to donate his collection of books on American history to Edinburgh University Library as a 'contribution to benefit present and future generations of students in the study of United States history at Edinburgh'. The 1,800 books in the collection comprise a carefully selected and balanced library on the whole of the period since the founding of the Anglophonic colonies. They are catalogued online and housed in the Compton Room with the Kirkpatrick (History) Library in the William Robertson Building, George Square. Copies of the printed catalogue of the Compton Collection may be consulted in the Main and History Libraries.
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James V. Compton

(1928- ) Professor of History at San Francisco State University

(1928- )
Professor of History at San Francisco State University