Jesse Jarue Mark
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Born24 September 1906
Died20 February 1971 (aged 65)[1]
Knownfor
- One of the first African-American scientists to earn a PhD in botany
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Jesse Jarue Mark (24 September 1906 – 20 February 1971) was an American botanist who was one of the first African-Americans to gain a PhD in botany, and likely the first at Iowa State University, where he joined the faculty.[2] He was also a Rockefeller Agriculture Fellow.[3]
Jesse Jarue Mark was born in 1906 in Apple Springs, Texas,[2] a town that had a school with 28 children in 1896 and a total population of 75 by World War I.[4] A misspelling of his name as Jessie in the historical record appears to have led to the assumption that he was a woman.[5]