Paul Leslie Redfearn Explained

Paul Leslie Redfearn Jr.
Birth Date:5 October 1926
Birth Place:Sanford, Florida
Death Date:[1]
Death Place:Blue Springs, Missouri[2]
Fields:Bryology
Workplaces:U.S. Army Medical Service Corps (1950–1954)
Missouri State University (1957–1988)
Alma Mater:Florida Southern College
University of Tennessee
Florida State University
Thesis Title:A study of the bryophytic vegetation of limestone outcrops in Florida[3]
Thesis Year:1957
Author Abbrev Bot:Redf.

Paul Leslie Redfearn Jr. (1926–2018) was an American professor of botany, specializing in mosses and liverworts. He was the president of the American Bryological and Lichenological Society from 1971 to 1973.[1] He was the mayor of Springfield, Missouri from 1978 to 1981.[4]

Biography

After graduating from high school, Paul L. Redfearn Jr. served in the United States Army Air Corps in 1944 and 1945. He graduated in 1948 with B.S. from Florida Southern College and in 1949 with M.S. from the University of Tennessee. From 1950 to 1954 he served in the United States Army Medical Service Corps in California and Japan. He graduated from Florida State University with Ph.D. in 1957. He taught botany in the department of biology at Missouri State University from 1957 to 1988, when he retired as professor emeritus.[1] In Springfield, Missouri, Redfearn served from 1973 to 1977 as a city council member in Zone 4[5] and from 1978 to 1981 as the mayor.[4] (Springfield has council-manager government and Springfield's City Council has 4 Zones: numbered 1 for NW, 2 for NE, 3 for SW, 4 for SE. National Avenue in Zone 4 forms the eastern boundary of Missouri State University.[6] [7])

Redfearn received several awards.[1] In 1965 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[8] He was a member of many organizations and served as a volunteer curator[1] at the Norland Henderson[9] [10] Herbarium of Powell Gardens in Kingsville, Missouri. Redfearn was from 1986 to 1992 the editor-in-chief of the journal Missouriensis[1] of the Missouri Native Plants Society.[11]

In 1949 in Polk County, Florida, Paul Redfearn Jr. married Donna Alice Rubie Whitten. Upon his death he was survived by his widow, two sons, Paul Leslie III and James Jeffrey, two granddaughters, one step-grandson, and five great grandchildren.[1] Paul L. Redfearn III became a lawyer with a national reputation and from 1992 to 1993 was the president of the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys.[12]

Selected publications

References

  1. News: Springfield News-Leader. Paul L. Redfearn Jr. 1926–2018. December 2, 2018.
  2. obit. Donna Alice Rubie Whitten Redfearn. Springfield News-Leader. June 02, 2022
  3. Web site: Redfearn, Paul Leslie, Jr. Ph.D. thesis, FSU, 1957. Florida State University Libraries.
  4. News: Wert, Jason. Former Springfield Mayor Redfearn Dead at 92. Ozarks Independent. December 3, 2018.
  5. Web site: Former Springfield Mayor, SMSU Biology Professor Dies. December 3, 2018. Skalicky, Michele. KSMU, Ozarks Public Radio. (This KSMU article erroneously states that Redfearn took office as mayor in 1979 — the correct year is 1978.)
  6. Web site: Springfield City Council Zone 4. springfieldmo.gov.
  7. Web site: Campus Map. Missouri State University.
  8. Web site: Historic Fellows. American Association for the Advancement of Science.
  9. Web site: Somewhere, Over the Rainbow (Dr. Norland Henderson in memoriam). January 19, 2016. Powell Gardens.
  10. News: Dr. Norland Henderson 1915–2016. The Kansas City Star. January 15, 2016.
  11. Web site: Missouriensis. Missouri Native Plants Society.
  12. Web site: Paul Redfearn, Top 100. The National Trial Lawyers.

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