Warren Carroll
| Warren H. Carroll | |
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| Born |
24 March 1932 Maine, U.S. |
| Died | 17 July 2011 (aged 79) Manassas, Virginia, U.S. |
| Resting place | Christendom College, Front Royal, Virginia |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Education | B.A. history, Bates College M.A. history, Columbia University Ph.D.history, Columbia University |
| Organization | Christendom College |
| Known for | Founder of Christendom College Author of A History of Christendom series |
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| Title | President of Christendom College |
| Term | 1977-1985 |
| Successor | Damian Fedoryka 1985-1992 |
| Movement | Reform of Catholic higher education |
| Spouse(s) | Anne W. Carroll, author |
Warren H. Carroll (March 24, 1932 – July 17, 2011) was a leading Roman Catholic historian, author, and the founder of Christendom College.
The son of Herbert Allen Carroll and regional writer Gladys Hasty Carroll, Warren Hasty Carroll was born on March 24, 1932 in Maine. He received his B.A. in history from Bates College in 1953 and his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. His younger sister Sarah Watson, who died one month after Warren in 2011, and both of their parents were Bates College graduates.
He served at one time in the CIA's anti-communism division as a Communist propaganda analyst, a job that would later prove most beneficial when writing his monumental comprehensive study of international Communism, Seventy Years of the Communist Revolution (updated and re-released as The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution). During 1967-1972 he served on the staff of California State Senator, later U.S. Congressman, John G. Schmitz.
After his conversion from Deism to Catholicism in 1968, a year after his marriage to Anne Westhoff, he worked for the Catholic magazine Triumph, and then founded Christendom College in 1977 with the help of other Catholic laymen, in particular, William H. Marshner, Jeffrey A. Mirus, Raymund P. O'Herron, and Kristin M. Burns. He served as the first president of the college (located in Front Royal, Virginia) until 1985, as well as the chairman of the History Department until his retirement in 2002. At the time of his death, Carroll lived in Manassas, Virginia with his wife Anne, the founder of Seton Junior & Senior High School and Seton Home Study School, as well as the author of Christ the King, Lord of History, as well as Christ in the Americas.
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