Jon C. Teaford is professor emeritus in the History Department at Purdue University.
Teaford became interested in history at a young age, stemming from his fascination with president Theodore Roosevelt.
[2] He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1973; his dissertation, The Municipal Revolution in America: Origins of Modern Urban Government, 1650–1825, was also published as a book in 1975.
[2] In 2011–2012 he served as president of the Urban History Association.
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