About Walter Rice Sharp
Lived 1896 – 1977 (aged 81). Walter Rice Sharp was an American political scientist and writer.
Walter Rice Sharp (January 25, 1896 – March 27, 1977) was an American political scientist.
He was born on January 25, 1896. Sharp attended Wabash College. Upon graduation, he served in the United States military as an infantry captain. After the end of World War I, Sharp enrolled at Yale University. Further graduate study at the University of Bordeaux in France was funded by the American Field Service Fellowship awarded in 1920. Sharp received a doctorate in law in 1922, and returned to the United States.
The Hoover Institution Library and Archives holds a collection of Sharp's papers.
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American political scientist
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Walter Rice Sharp was born on 25 January 1896 in Greenwood.
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Walter Rice Sharp died on 27 March 1977 in Palo Alto.
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Walter Rice Sharp was a political scientist and writer.
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