Evans, Eli N.
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Fuller Name
- Eli Nachamson
Additional Information
Birth Date
- 1936-07-28
Death Date
- 2022-07-26
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1977
- Affiliation End: 2003
- Organization: Charles H. Revson Foundation
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1967
- Affiliation End: 1977
- Organization: Carnegie Corporation of New York
Birth Place
- Durham (N.C.)
Associated Language
- English
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Sources
- found: His Judah P. Benjamin, the Jewish Confederate, c1988:CIP t.p. (Eli N. Evans)
- found: LC data base, 8/12/87(hdg.: Evans, Eli N.)
- found: The provincials, 2005CIP galley (Eli Nachamson Evans)
- found: American Academy of Arts & Sciences website, Mar. 2, 2022(Eli N. Evans is the current President at the Charles H. Revson Foundation since 1977. Before his presidency, he served as speech writer to former President Johnson (1964-65), as Director at Duke University to former North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford's Study of American States (1965-67), and as Senior Program Executive of the Carnegie Corporation (1967-77). Additionally, he is the author of The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South; Judah P. Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate, and The Lonely Days Were Sundays: Reflections of a Jewish Southerner; historian and essayist) - https://www.amacad.org/person/eli-n-evans
- found: Washington post WWW site, viewed Aug. 18, 2022(in obituary dated July 28, 2022: Eli Evans; Eli N. Evans, an author and memoirist who explored through the lens of his family the history of the Jews of the American South, died July 26 in New York City. He was 85. Mr. Evans was a Yale-trained lawyer who made his professional life in Washington, as a speechwriter for President Lyndon B. Johnson, and later in New York, where he was president of the Charles H. Revson Foundation, a philanthropic organization where he served as president from 1977 to 2003. Eli Nachamson Evans was born in Durham on July 28, 1936)
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Change Notes
- 1987-08-18: new
- 2022-08-18: revised
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