Joseph LeConte was educated at Franklin College in Athens, Georgia, where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society.
13 Facts About Joseph LeConte
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Joseph LeConte produced medicine and was involved in research and development operations of the Confederate Nitre and Mining Bureau, associated with the Confederate Secret Service.
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Joseph LeConte referred to "a carpet-bag governor, scalawag officials, and a negro legislature controlled by rascals" and stated that the "sudden enfranchisement of the negro without qualification was the greatest political crime ever perpetrated by any people".
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Joseph LeConte was appointed the first professor of geology and natural history and botany at the university, a post which he held until his death.
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Joseph LeConte was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1873.
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Joseph LeConte published a series of papers on monocular and binocular vision, and on psychology.
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Joseph LeConte described the fissure-eruptions in western America, discoursed on earth-crust movements and their causes and on the great features of the Earth's surface.
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Joseph LeConte was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1892, and of the Geological Society of America in 1896.
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Joseph LeConte first visited Yosemite Valley in 1870, where he became friends with John Muir and started exploring the Sierra.
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Joseph LeConte became concerned that resource exploitation would ruin the Sierra, so he co-founded the Sierra Club with Muir and others in 1892.
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Joseph LeConte was a director of the Sierra Club from 1892 through 1898.
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Joseph LeConte's son, Joseph Nisbet LeConte, was a noted professor and Sierra Club member.
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Joseph LeConte died of a heart attack in Yosemite Valley, California, on July 6,1901, right before the Sierra Club's first High Trip.