Don K. Price
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Don Krasher Price (23 January 1910 – 9 July 1995) was an American political scientist who served as the founding dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government from 1958 to 1976. He wrote a number of books about United States history and government.
Education[edit]
Price was educated at Middlesboro High School. He studied at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee from 1927 to 1931, and then came to Merton College, Oxford for three years on a Rhodes Scholarship. He was awarded a second class degree in History in 1934, and B.Litt. in 1935.[1][2]
Career[edit]
After serving as a lieutenant in the US Coast Guard during the Second World War, Price joined the Bureau of the Budget in 1946.[1][2] He was deputy chairman of the US Department of Defense's Research & Development Board from 1952 to 1953, then vice-president of the Ford Foundation until 1959.[1][2] In 1958 he was appointed as the founding Dean at Harvard University's Graduate School of Public Administration. That same year, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.[3] He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1960.[4] From 1961 to 1963 he acted as an adviser to President Kennedy on the structure and operations of the US Federal Government.[1] Price retired from the John F. Kennedy School of Government (as the Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration had been renamed following Kennedy's assassination) in 1976.[2]
Price returned to Oxford in 1985 to spend a year at Balliol College as George Eastman Visiting Professor, during which time he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the university.[2]
A native of Middlesboro, Kentucky, Price died on 9 July 1995 in Wellesley, Massachusetts at the age of 85, as a result of complications from Alzheimer's disease.
Publications[edit]
- City Manager Government in the US (1940; co-author)
- Government and Science (1954)
- The Scientific Estate (1965)
- America's Unwritten Constitution (1985)
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900-1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 236.
- ^ a b c d e Neustadt, Richard E. (March 1998). "Don K. Price (23 January 1910-9 July 1995)". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 142 (1): 154–160. JSTOR 3152273.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-12-13.
- ^ "Don Krasher Price". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2022-12-13.
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