Jack H. Hexter

1910–1996 (age 86)

Historian

Biography

Jack H. Hexter was born in 1910 and became a noted historian of early modern Europe, prize-winning for his clear prose and his insistence on careful analysis of sources.

He taught generations of scholars, influenced thinking about parliamentary studies, and his memory is preserved at Bellefontaine Cemetery.

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