Samuel Proctor

Samuel Proctor
Born	1919 Jacksonville, Florida
Died	July 10, 2005
Nationality	American
Education	B.A., University of Florida, 1937 M.A., University of Florida, 1942 Ph.D., University of Florida, 1958

Samuel Proctor (1919 – July 10, 2005) was an American historian.

Proctor was born in Jacksonville, Florida, one of six sons of a textile salesman and a housewife. Proctor's father was Jack Proctor, born in Poland, and Celia Proctor (nee Schneider).

Proctor arrived at the University of Florida as a freshman in 1937 and received his Bachelor of Arts in 1941. As an undergraduate, he was on the staff of the Florida Alligator. He received his Master of Arts from UF in 1942 after only two semesters, in which the wrote a 560-page thesis on Florida Governor Napoleon Bonaparte Broward.

Proctor served in the United States Army during World War II, where he taught reading and arithmetic to illiterate Army recruits at Camp Blanding near Starke.

Discharged from the service in 1946, he was offered scholarships to pursue an international law degree at Yale and Ohio State. However, he instead decided to return to the University of Florida, originally to attend the College of Law. One of his former professors, William Carleton (chairman of the freshman social sciences program and later namesake of Carleton Hall) convinced him to help alleviate the post-war shortage of teachers.

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