having a county park in Cass County near Vandalia, Michigan named after him (Dr. T.K. Lawless Park). The park features a range of outdoor activities, including a 10-mile mountain bike trail, shelters, softball fields, and soccer fields. A portrait of Lawless painted by Betsy Graves Reyneau is in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution at the National Portrait Gallery. It was originally collected by the Harmon Foundation as part of a project to document noteworthy African Americans. References Smith, Jessie Carney (Editor). Notable Black American Men. pp 700 –702. Gale Research Incorporated. Detroit, Michigan. 1999. External links "Hemangiosarcoma of the Skin", Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology, American Medical Association, Arthur M. Greenwood and Theodore K. Lawless, 1922 1892 births 1971 deaths People from Thibodaux, Louisiana Scientists from New Orleans People from Chicago American dermatologists American leprologists American medical researchers Northwestern University faculty Straight University alumni Talladega College alumni Feinberg School of Medicine alumni University of Kansas School of Medicine alumni Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons alumni Harvard Medical School alumni University of Paris alumni University of Freiburg alumni University of Vienna alumni Virginia State University alumni Spingarn Medal winners Philanthropists from Louisiana African-American physicians African-American businesspeople Philanthropists from Illinois Scientists from Virginia 20th-century American philanthropists 20th-century African-American people