Roger Hewes Wells

Roger Hewes Wells (also Roger H. Wells , born June 1, 1894 in Quincy , Adams County , Illinois , † June 16, 1994 in Jacksonville , Morgan County , Illinois) was an American political scientist .

Life

Family and education

The out of the Mississippi River located City native Quincy Roger Hewes Wells, son of the physician Clarence Arthur Wells and its Spouse Mabel Etta born Hewes, turned to the high-school graduation to the study of economic and political science at Northwestern University to, In 1916 he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts . He then moved to the Harvard University to Cambridge , in 1921 he obtained the degree of Master of Arts , 1923 took place its graduation to the Ph. D.From 1927 to 1928, Roger Hewes Wells , who was awarded the Guggenheim scholarship , studied at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin .

Roger Hewes Wells married Stella Florence Dueringer, who died in 1984, on August 11, 1922. The daughters Lois Elizabeth and Elsa Mabel came from this connection. He died of congestive heart failure on June 16, 1994, two weeks after turning 100 at the Barton Stone Christian Home in Jacksonville .

Professional background

Roger Hewes Wells, who received an Austin Teaching Fellowship in 1922, received an assistantship in the Department of Government at Harvard University in 1920. In addition, he worked since 1922 as an assistant in the Department of Government of Radcliffe College . 1923 Roger Hewes Wells was appointed as Assistant Professor of Economics and Political Science at the Department of Political Science of the Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr in the state of Pennsylvania , in 1927, he was appointed associate professor , for 1933 Full Professor appointed in 1940 he was appointed head of the Department of Political Science.

In 1946 he interrupted this activity for two years by assignments in Germany as Deputy Director of the Civil Administration of the American Military Government and Chairman of the Historical Division in the office of the United States High Commissioner, for which he was honored with the award of the United States Medal of Freedom . Roger Hewes Wells retired in 1963 .

The renowned Germany expert Roger Hewes Wells was elected a member of the American Political Science Association , the American Society for Public Administration, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the Pennsylvania Political Science Association and the National Municipal League.

Fonts

• The veto power of the state governor in recent years. Ph. D. Harvard University 1923. 1923
• together with Arthur N. Holcombe: State government in the United States. 2nd ed., Rev. and enl., Macmillan Co., New York, 1926
• German cities: a study of contemporary municipal politics and administration. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1932
• American local government. in: McGraw-Hill studies in political science. McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, London, 1939
• together with Elmer Plischke: The allied high commission for Germany. Historical Division, Office of the Executive Secretary, Office of the US High Commissioner for Germany, Bonn, 1953
• Impact of Federal grants-in-aid on the political structure and functioning of State and local government: a report on twenty-five States submitted to the Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. Governmental Affairs Institute, Washington, 1954
• The States in West German federalism: a study of Federal-State relations, 1949-1960. Bookman Associates, New York, 1961

literature

• United States. Department of State: Biographic register of the Department of State. in: Department of State publication, 2326, 2585., USGPO, Washington, DC, 1945, p. 306.
• Who's Who in America: a biographical dictionary of notable living men and women. : volume 33 (1964-1965), Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1964, p. 2129.
• Bryn Mawr College: Bryn Mawr College calendar: undergraduate courses. The College, Bryn Mawr, 1975, p. 10.
• The New York times biographical service. : volume 25, New York Times & Arno Press, New York, 1994, p. 1041.

Web links

• Roger Hewes Wells on the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation website; accessed on January 24, 2016