RARE! WWII Strategist Ernest Griffith Hand Signed 3X5 Card

  

"Political Scientist" Ernest Griffith Hand Signed 3X5 Card. Political scientist and former Federal official who wrote on the workings of.

17 at the Parkview Nursing Home in Portland, Ore. Griffith moved to Portland in 1990, after living in Washington for. A former director of what is now the Congressional Research Service. Which conducts research for Congress, he was long associated with American. In 1958 he became the first dean of its School of International. He retired from the faculty in 1965.

In his many writings, starting in. Griffith concentrated on Congress, the Presidency and the history of. His textbook''The American System of Government'' Praeger. 1954 is in its sixth edition. Based on a series of Fulbright lectures he gave.

At Oxford University, it offered a comparison with the parliamentary system. Griffith was born in Utica, N. After graduating from Hamilton College in. He served two years in the Naval Air Service in World War I and. Then went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, earning a doctorate in 1925. 1935, he was the dean of undergraduates at Syracuse. University, then dean of the Graduate School. Later, he became a professor of.

Political science at Washington University. In 1940, he was appointed director.

Of the Legislative Reference Service of the Library of Congress, which became. He held that post until 1958.

Was responsible for research on the military effort in World War II and oversaw. Preparations for the Congressional Reorganization Act of 1946 and the.