• May 10, 1912 – August 29, 1944
• Born in Vicksburg, MS, lived in Harriman, TN
  • Attended Vanderbilt University and the University of Tennessee
• Philosophy and Psychology, 1930-1935
• 2nd Lt.
• Stationed at Keesler Field and Kirtland Field

Bernard Borah was born on May 10, 1912, in Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Aaron Sydney Borah and Bessie Lowres Borah. He grew up in Harriman, Tennessee, and graduated from high school there in 1928. He attended Vanderbilt University for a year before moving to New York, New York, to work. He returned to Tennessee in 1930 and enrolled in the University of Tennessee, where he worked for the Orange and White campus newspaper. He graduated in 1935 with degrees in philosophy and psychology. After school, he worked for the TVA and United Mine Workers before joining the army in 1942. He completed basic training at Keesler Field in Biloxi, Mississippi, and remained there as a drill sergeant while the military investigated his socialist political leanings. After the army cleared him, he was sent to Miami for officers’ training. While stationed at Kirtland Field in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he developed hyperthyroidism and died on August 29, 1943.

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