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Birth	:	22 Dec 1918
Death	:	11 Jan 2009
Burial	:	Oak Grove Cemetery, Lexington, Lexington City, USA
Coordinate	:	37.7808300, -79.4450600
Description	:	GILLIAM, Bates McCluer, Professor Emeritus of History and Politics at the Virginia Military Institute, died Sunday, January 11, 2009, at Benjamin Borden Health Center in Lexington, Virginia, following a long illness. Born in Richmond, Va., on December 22, 1918, Mac Gilliam grew up in Lynchburg, the son of James Rirchard Gilliam Jr. and Nelle McCluer Gilliam. ... He was preceded in death by his sister, Ellen Gilliam Perry. Gilliam graduated from Virginia Episcopal School in 1936, where he was a member of Cum Laude, taught, and was later a member of the Board of Trustees. He was a 1940 graduate... Read More	GILLIAM, Bates McCluer, Professor Emeritus of History and Politics at the Virginia Military Institute, died Sunday, January 11, 2009, at Benjamin Borden Health Center in Lexington, Virginia, following a long illness. Born in Richmond, Va., on December 22, 1918, Mac Gilliam grew up in Lynchburg, the son of James Rirchard Gilliam Jr. and Nelle McCluer Gilliam. ... He was preceded in death by his sister, Ellen Gilliam Perry. Gilliam graduated from Virginia Episcopal School in 1936, where he was a member of Cum Laude, taught, and was later a member of the Board of Trustees. He was a 1940 graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, where he was on the faculty from 1949 until 1984. He received a Masters Degree in History from the University of Virginia and his doctorate in Politics from Princeton University. A devoted Democrat, he was faculty advisor to several student organizations. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in June, 1940 and was on active duty from 1941 until 1946 in the G-2 Military Intelligence Service of the European Theater of Operations, serving in London, Normandy, Paris and Berlin. He retired as a Lt. Colonel from the Army Intelligence and Security Branch in the U. S. Army Reserve in 1978. Col. Gilliam was a member of Bethesda Presbyterian Church in Rockbridge Baths, Va. He was elected to the Lexington City Council from 1963 until 1969 and again in the 1970s, served as co-chairman of the Rockbridge County Democratic Committee and vice-chairman of Rockbridge County Electoral Board. He was president of the Rockbridge Historical Society and a founding board member of both the Rockbridge Area Conservation Council and the Valley Conservation Council. He served as president of the Virginia Social Science Association and the Virginia Conference of the American Association of University Professors, and was active in the Southern and American Political Science Associations. He was a member of the Beta Chapter of Kappa Alpha Order. ... Published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch from 1/13/2009 - 1/14/2009

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Parent

James Richard Gilliam Jr.

(1891 - 1979)

Nellie McCluer Gilliam

(1890 - 1963)

Siblings

Margaret Alexander Gilliam

(1922 - 1922)

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