James P. McClure, ex officio

James McClure joined the Papers of Thomas Jefferson editorial project at Princeton University in 1996 and has been General Editor and project director since 2014. He is co-director of the North American Climate History project (NACH), a collaborative effort of the Jefferson Papers at Princeton, the Center for Digital Editing at the University of Virginia, and the Center for Digital Scholarship at the American Philosophical Society to create a digital resource giving free online access to American weather and climate records. He is a former president of the Association for Documentary Editing. He has a bachelor’s degree with a double major in history and political science from Utah State University, a master’s degree from the College of William & Mary with training in historical archaeology, and a doctorate in American history from the University of Michigan. Prior to joining the Jefferson Papers, he worked on projects editing the papers of Salmon P. Chase and Daniel Chester French. He was co-editor, with Peg A. Lamphier and Erika M. Kreger, of "Spur Up Your Pegasus”: Family Letters of Salmon, Kate, and Nettie Chase, 1844–1873 (2009); with Leigh Johnsen, Kathleen Norman, and Michael Vanderlan, of "Circumventing the Dred Scott Decision: Edward Bates, Salmon P. Chase, and the Citizenship of African Americans"; and with John David Smith, ed., Race and Recruitment (2013).