Dates

• Existence: 1931-

Biographical History

Richard L. Bushman (1931- ) is an American historian and college professor.

Richard Lyman Bushman was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, June 20, 1931, the son of a department store executive and was reared in Portland, Oregon. Bushman received his bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University, where he studied with distinguished early American historian Bernard Bailyn. A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he served a mission to the American Northeast and Canadian Maritime Provinces. Bushman taught at Harvard, Brigham Young University, Boston University, and the University of Delaware before joining the history faculty at Columbia. During the 2007-08 academic year, Bushman served as Howard W. Hunter Visiting Professor in Studies of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Claremont Graduate University and held a Huntington Library fellowship. Bushman married fellow historian Claudia Lauper Bushman on August 19, 1955; and they are the parents of four sons (Richard, Karl, Serge, and Ben) and two daughters (Clarissa and Margaret).

Citation:

UPB files, February 3, 2014 (Richard Lyman Bushman; born in Salt Lake City, Utah, June 20, 1931; reared in Portland, Oregon; received his bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University; served an LDS mission to the American Northeast and Canadian Maritime Provinces; taught at Harvard, Brigham Young University, Boston University, and the University of Delaware and Columbia; served as Howard W. Hunter Visiting Professor in Studies of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Claremont Graduate University; held a Huntington Library fellowship; married Claudia Lauper Bushman on August 19, 1955; and they are the parents of four sons (Richard, Karl, Serge, and Ben) and two daughters (Clarissa and Margaret))

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