Andrew C. McLaughlin

Career

Following his graduation, McLaughlin taught Latin at the University of Michigan, then transferred to the history department, where he taught American history until he was recruited in 1906 by University of Chicago president William Rainey Harper, teaching there until 1929.

By 1903 McLaughlin was a respected historian. He was selected to be the first director of the Department of Historical Research at the newly created Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C., a post he held for two years. In 1914 he was named president of the American Historical Association, becoming an advocate for historians giving guidance on world events, touring the United Kingdom in 1918 to support its efforts in World War I, lecturing on the causes that had led the United States into the war. His book America and Britain (1919) was a compilation of these lectures.

Personal life

In 1890 McLaughlin married Lois Thompson Angell, daughter of longtime University of Michigan president James B. Angell.

McLaughlin's brother James Campbell McLaughlin was a U.S. Representative from Michigan in 1907–1932. Other brothers include John Russell McLaughlin and David Chase McLaughlin.

Children

• Constance McLaughlin Green was also a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who specialized in the history of Washington, D.C.
• James Angell MacLachlan was a Harvard Law School professor and co-founder of the National Bankruptcy Conference.
• Isabella Campbell McLaughlin married journalist and author Rockwell Stephens.
• Rowland Hazard McLaughlin (Cpt. U.S. Army), died in France in 1918.
• David Blair McLaughlin, died accidentally in 1914. The David Blair McLaughlin Prize for undergraduate non-fiction writing was established in his memory.
• Esther Lois McLaughlin (1900–1969)