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Thomas Edward Bird, Ph.D., son of Harry J. and Paula Wava Boyce Bird, was born in Rome, New York.  He currently resides in Valley Stream, New York, with his wife Mary Lynne Miller Bird. They are the parents of a son, Matthew David, and a daughter, Lisa Bronwen. Dr. Bird holds various degrees from Syracuse University, Middlebury College, and Princeton University.  He also attended Harvard University.  Upon graduation, he enlisted in the US Army, completed the course of the Military Intelligence School at Fort Holabird, MD, serving at Fort George Meade in Washington, D.C.  He has been a faculty member at Emanuel College, Tufts University, and City University of New York. 

 

Memberships 

 

  • Colonial Order of the Acorn

  • Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America (Charter Member)

  • Elder William Brewster Society (Elder)

  • Founders Fellowship

  • General Society of Colonial Wars

  • General Society of Mayflower Descendants

  • General Society of the War of 1812 (Atlantic District Vice President)

  • Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors (Registrar)

  • Military Society of the War of 1812

  • National Society of Sons of the American Colonists (Honorary Governor General)

  • National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (1st New York Continental Chapter, Founding Member; Historian); (Battle of Brooklyn Chapter Founding Member)

  • National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Former Governor New York Branch)

  • Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens (Honorary Governor General)

  • Order of the First Families of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (Honorary Governor General)

  • Saint David's Society of the State of New York (Honorary President)

  • Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York (Historian)

  • Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New York (Lieutenant Governor, Historian)

  • Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Vermont

  • Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of New York

  • Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy (former Deputy Governor General)

  • Society of the First Families of New York (Charter Member)

  • Society of the Second War with Great Britain in the State of New York (Honorary President)

  • Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861

  • National Gavel Society

 

Chivalric Orders

 

The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (Knight Grand Cross) and the recipient of the Pilgrim’s Shell from the Patriarch of Jerusalem.

 

Other

Dr. Bird has held years-long membership in the Harvard Club of Boston, the Princeton Club of New York, and the Nassau Club of Princeton. He was named a member of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels. He contributed to the Encyclopedia Brittanica Book of the Year for fifteen years and chaired Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gause Literary Award Jury.  He served as a consultant to the Ambassador to Belarus and to the Ambassador to the USSR. He has testified before several Congressional Commissions on such topics as Civil Rights in the Socialist Bloc and the state of Religious Communities in the Soviet Union.  He gave the keynote address on Human Rights Violations at a US Department of State sponsored conference.

 

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