Richard Lowitt

Content sourced from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Richard Lowitt (February 25, 1922 – June 23, 2018) was an American historian who studied the American West. He taught at many universities, including Iowa State University, where he chaired the History Department, the University of Oklahoma, and the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, and he wrote several books. Born in New York City to Hungarian immigrant parents, Eugene Lowitt and Eleanor Lebowitz, he earned a BA from City College of New York in 1943 and an MA (1945) and PhD (1950) from Columbia University. He taught at Connecticut College, Florida State University, the University of Kentucky, the University of Maryland, and the University of Rhode Island before moving to Iowa State. He later became a professor at the University of Oklahoma and was named Regents Professor at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma. He wrote biographies of George W. Norris and Bronson M. Cutting and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1957. He married Suzanne Carson, and they had a son, Peter, and a daughter, Pamela. They lived in Concord, Massachusetts. He died on June 23, 2018, in Concord.