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| Born | Walter Fairleigh Dodd (1880-04-07)April 7, 1880 Hopkinsville, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Died | April 14, 1960(1960-04-14) (aged 80) |
| Education | Stetson University (BS) University of Chicago (PhD) |
| Occupation | lawyer |
Walter Fairleigh Dodd (April 7, 1880 inHopkinsville, Kentucky – April 14, 1960) was a professor in thepolitical science department atJohns Hopkins University who wrote "one of the most important books on the process of amendingstate constitutions."[1]
He graduated from Florida State College in 1898,[2] and received aBachelors in Science fromJohn B. Stetson University in 1901. At theUniversity of Chicago, he was a Fellow, 1902–1904, and received aPh.D. in 1905.[3]In 1904–1907, he was in charge of the section of foreign law in theLibrary of Congress. He held a research appointment at Johns Hopkins in 1908–1910, in 1910–1911 was associate in political science, in 1911–1914 assistant professor, and in 1914–1915 associate professor of political science in theUniversity of Illinois. After 1915, he was associate professor of political science in theUniversity of Chicago.[2]He served as the second Secretary of the State of Illinois' Legislative Reference Bureau in 1917–1918.[4]He was president of theAmerican Political Science Association from 1945 to 1946. In retirement, in 1946, Walter Dodd was retained to represent Vashti Cromwell McCollum in her landmark case challenging released time sectarian religious classes in the public schools of Champaign Illinois. The result was the 1948 decision, eight to one, in her favor (333 US 203).[5][6]
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