Kirkpatrick, E. M. (Evron Maurice), 1911-1995
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found: The people, politics, and the politician, c1941:t.p. (E.M. Kirkpatrick)
found: OCLC, Feb. 8, 2002(hdg.: Kirkpatrick, Evron M. (Evron Maurice), 1911- ; usage: E.M. Kirkpatrick)
found: The New York Times, via WWW, May 4, 2015(May 9, 1995 edition; Evron Kirkpatrick, 83, Director Of Political Science Association; Evron M. Kirkpatrick, a scholar who over nearly three decades built the American Political Science Association into a major academic organization, died on April 26, 1995 at his home in Bethesda, Md.; in 1954 he was appointed director of the political science association, a post he held until he retired in 1981; he was credited by associates with fostering the organization's growth from about 7,000 to more than 15,000 members; he also taught several terms at Howard University and at Georgetown University; in 1981 he became a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute; among his publications were "Foundation of Political Science" in 1970 and "The Past and Future of Presidential Debates" in 1979; Evron Maurice Kirkpatrick was born August 15, 1911, in Raub, Ind.; he earned both a bachelor's and a master's degree in political science at the University of Illinois, and a doctorate in political science at Yale University in 1939; he was an early associate of Hubert H. Humphrey, later the Senator and Vice President, whom he assisted in creating Minnesota's Democratic Farmer Labor Party in the 1930s; he taught at the University of Minnesota, where Mr. Humphrey was his student, in the late 1930s and early 1940s; during World War II he served as assistant director for research and analysis of the Office of Strategic Services, the Government's wartime intelligence agency; from there he went to the State Department, where he worked in an identical capacity for eight years; his wife of 40 years, Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick, was the United States Ambassador to the United Nations during the Reagan Administration)
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