Charles Herman Pritchett

Charles Herman Pritchett (February 9, 1907 - April 28, 1995) was an American political scientist who served as a Professor Emeritus in Political Science at the University of Chicago. He later moved to the University of California Santa Barbara, where he taught until 1974.

Pritchett was president of the American Political Science Association from 1963 to 1964, and he was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Life Pritchett obtained a bachelor's degree from Millikin University in 1927 and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1937. He then worked for the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Social Science Research Council and the U.S. Department of Labor before becoming a member of the faculty at the University of Chicago.

Books The Roosevelt Court: A Study in Judicial Politics and Values, 1937-1947 (1948) The American Constitution (1959) Congress versus the Supreme Court (1961) The American Constitutional System (1963)