Leonard Dupee White 1891-1958

Abstract

Leonard White was born in Acton, Massachusetts on January 17, 1891. He was the son of John Sidney and Bertha H. (Dupee) White. He received the degrees of Bachelor of Science at Dartmouth College in 1914 and of Master of Arts in 1915. He was instructor in government at Clark University from 1915 to 1918, and then instructor and later assistant professor of political science at Dartmouth College in 1918-1920. He was appointed associate professor of political science at the University of Chicago in 1920, and received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy there in 1921. He served in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago from 1920, holding an Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professorship at the time of his retirement in October, 1956, and was emeritus professor at the time of his death, on February 23, 1958. He was married to Una Lucille Holden in 1916. His wife, his daughter Marcia (Mrs. M. Gerson Rosenthal, Jr.) and his mother survived him. Among the formal distinctions that came to Leonard White were honorary degrees from Dartmouth (Litt. D., 1946) and Princeton (LL. D., 1952); the Stockberger Award of the Society for Personnel Administration, 1955; Commander of the Order of Leopold II from Belgium in 1948; the Woodrow Wilson Award by the American Political Science Association in 1948 for his The Federalists, published in 1948, and the Bancroft Prize of Columbia University in 1955 for his The Jacksonians, published in 1954.