Charles Herman Pritchett

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Charles Herman Pritchett (born February 9, 1907 in Latham , Illinois , † April 28, 1995 in Santa Barbara , California ) was an American political scientist . He was considered an expert on American constitutional law and a pioneer of a behavioral approach in political science, particularly in the analysis of decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States (Supreme Court) .

Life

Pritchett earned a bachelor's degree from Millikin University in 1927 and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1937 - delayed by an illness with tuberculosis . He then worked for the Tennessee Valley Authority , the Social Science Research Council and the US Department of Labor before joining the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1940 after a year of research in England . From 1948 to 1955 and from 1958 to 1964 he was chairman of the local political science department. Visiting professorships took him to Makerere University ( Uganda ) in 1963 and to Stanford University in 1966 . In 1966 he retired , but moved to the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1970 , where he taught until 1974.

Pritchet was 1963/64 President of the American Political Science Association , which since 1991 a C. Herman Pritchett Award for the best political science book on law and jurisdiction. In 1988 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

C. Herman Pritchett was married to Marguerite Lentler Pritchett (1906-1998). Their common grave is in the Santa Barbara Cemetery .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Roosevelt Court (1948)
  • The American Constitution (1959)
  • Congress versus the Supreme Court (1961)
  • The American Constitutional System (1963)

literature

  • Malter F. Murphy: Charles Herman Pritchett . In: PS: Political Science & Politics . tape 28 , 1995, pp. 748-750 ( cambridge.org [PDF; 385 kB ; accessed on April 22, 2019]).
  • Ronald Stidham: Pritchett, Charles Herman . In: Glenn H. Utter, Charles Lockhart (Eds.): American Political Scientists: A Dictionary . ABC-CLIO, 2002, ISBN 0-313-31957-X , p. 326–328 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter P. (PDF; 649 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved April 21, 2019 .
  2. ^ Charles Herman Pritchett in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved April 21, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Pritchett, Charles Herman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pritchett, Charles H .; Pritchett, C. Herman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Latham , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1995
Place of death Santa Barbara , California