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Thomas K. McCraw, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian from Corinth, Mississippi, died on November 3, 2012, at age 72 while teaching at Harvard Business School.

McCraw won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for History for Prophets of Regulation, which explored the rise of the regulatory state through biographies of four influential regulators.

His other major works included Prophets of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction (2007) and The Founders and Finance (2011), which examined early American economic history through biographical narratives.

McCraw was an Ole Miss graduate (Class of 1962) who served four years in the U.S. Navy before earning advanced degrees from the University of Wisconsin and teaching at Texas and Harvard Business School from 1976 to 2007.

The Legislature expresses sympathy to McCraw's surviving family, including his wife Susan, two children, and three grandchildren, and directs the resolution be presented to Ole Miss, Harvard Business School, and the Mississippi Arts Commission.