Arthur N. Holcombe
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Life
Arthur N. Holcombe was born in Winchester, Massachusetts on November 3, 1884.[1] He received a BA at Harvard University in 1906 and a Ph.D. in 1909. On August 30, 1910, he married Carolyn H. Crossett.[1] They had five children. In 1964, he married Hadassah Moore Leeds Parrot.
Holcombe split his career between public service and teaching. He was president of the American Political Science Association in 1936. He was credited with establishing political philosophy and theory as basic disciplines in Harvard University’s government curriculum, where he was Professor of government, from 1910 to 1955. Among his students were John F. Kennedy, Henry Kissinger and Henry Cabot Lodge.[2]
In 1949, he assisted Chiang Kai-shek in the drafting of a constitution for the Republic of China. In 1955, he retired as Eaton Professor of the Sciences of Government to become chairman of the committee to Study the Organization of Peace, an affiliate of the American Association for the United Nations.
Holcombe died in Gwynedd, Pennsylvania on December 9, 1977.[3][4]
Works
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- Arthur N. Holcombe, The Middle Classes in American Politics (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1940). Reprinted: de Gruyter.
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References
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External links
- Guide to the Arthur N. Holcombe Personal Papers at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
- "Book Review: A Strategy of Peace in a Changing World", The Academy of Political Science, B. S. Murty, 1970
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