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==Background== Commager was born Henry Irving Commager on October 25, 1902, in [[Pittsburgh]], [[Pennsylvania]], the son of James Williams and Anne Elizabeth (Dan) Commager.{{sfnm |1a1=Jumonville |1y=1996 |1p=224 |2a1=Jumonville |2y=1999 |2p=5}} After his mother died when he was ten, he was raised by his maternal grandfather in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]].{{sfn|Jumonville|1999|pp=7-8}} He attended the [[University of Chicago]] and earned degrees in history: [[Bachelor of Philosophy]] (1923), [[Master of Arts]] (1924), and [[Doctor of Philosophy]] (1928).{{sfn|Jumonville|1999|pp=9-10; 13-14}}<ref name="Chronology"/> He lived in [[Copenhagen]] for a year researching his dissertation on the political reform movement in [[Denmark]] led by [[Johann Friedrich Struensee]].{{sfn|Jumonville|1999|pp=13-14}} Commager married Evan Alexa Carroll (died 1968) of [[South Carolina]] in 1928.<ref name="Chronology"/>{{sfn|Jumonville|1999|pp=23, 261}}<ref name=amherst>{{cite web | title=Collection: Henry Steele Commager Papers | website=Amherst College | date=2023-03-01 | url=https://archivesspace.amherst.edu/repositories/2/resources/245 | access-date=2023-03-02}}</ref> The couple had three children:{{r|amherst}} Henry Steele Commager Jr. (1932β1984), known as Steele Commager, who became a classicist at Columbia University and wrote one of the leading books on the Roman poet [[Horace]];{{sfn|Roots|1994|p=108}} Elizabeth Carroll Commager; and Nellie Thomas McColl Commager (now Nell Lasch, wife of the historian [[Christopher Lasch]]). Evan Commager wrote several books, including ''Cousins'', ''Tenth Birthday'', ''Beaux'', and ''Valentine''. In 1979, Commager married Mary Powlesland,{{sfn|Jumonville|1999|p=263}} a professor in Latin American studies, in Linton, England. Commager died of [[pneumonia]] at the age of ninety-five on March 2, 1998, in Amherst.{{sfn|Jumonville|1999|p=275}}
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