Medford Bryan Evans

Who was Medford Bryan Evans?

Medford Bryan Evans was a college professor, author, editor, and the father of M. Stanton Evans.

Evans was born August 21, 1907 in Lufkin, the seat of Angelina County in east Texas, the son of Lysander Lee Evans and the former Bird Medford. He graduated magna cum laude in 1927 from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and then received a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1933. He taught at the University of Mississippi at Oxford, Mississippi, the Texas College of Arts and Industries—now known as Texas A&M University–Kingsville—, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, the University of the South, McMurry College in Abilene, Texas — now known as McMurry University— and Northwestern State College—now Northwestern State University—in 1955-1959.

In addition, Evans worked for radio station WDOD in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the Atomic Energy Commission in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and Washington, D.C., H.L. Hunt's Facts Forum, and the Jackson Citizen's Council as managing editor of The Citizen: A Journal of Fact and Opinion, official publication of the Citizens' Councils of America in Jackson. One of Evans' articles in The Citizen, "How to Start a Private School", was republished as a small book and became influential in the South's burgeoning movement toward private day-schools.