Thomas Porter Hardman

B.A., University of Oxford, 1911, M.A., 1914
L.L.B., West Virginia University, 1914
J.D., Yale University, 1915

Thomas Hardman was the first Rhodes Scholar to return for an academic career at West Virginia University.

A native of Lewis County, West Virginia, he attended West Virginia Wesleyan and transferred to WVU as a junior. He was a champion tennis player at Wesleyan, managed the football team, and was president of the athletic association and the Chrestomathean Literary Society. He was also a member of WVU?s Columbian Literary Society.

Hardman studied law at Oxford and Harvard University and was recommended for an L.L.B. degree at WVU based on these credentials.

At Oxford, Hardman attended Pembroke College.

He became Dean of the West Virginia University College of Law in 1930.