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Thomas Duckett Boyd
Thomas Duckett Boyd, Sr. (January 20, 1854 – November 2, 1932), was an American educator who was from 1896 to 1926 the president of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 
Earlier, from 1888 to 1896, he headed Northwestern State University, then known as Louisiana Normal, a teacher-training institute in Natchitoches.
Biography.
Boyd was born in Wytheville, Virginia, a son of Thomas J. Boyd and the former Minerva A. French. He was privately
LSU, named for both David French Boyd and Thomas Duckett Boyd, has honored sixty-five scholars in various fields of study. After Thomas Boyd's presidency, the Boyd Professor of History T. Harry Williams did much to debunk the premises and defenders of The Lost Cause.
In 1882, Boyd wed the former Annie Foules Fuqua of Baton Rouge, and the couple had five children: Thomas Duckett Boyd, Jr. (1882-1964), David French Boyd, II (1884-1885), Jeannette Foules Boyd