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Evron Maurice Kirkpatrick (born August 15, 1911, Raub, Indiana. died April 26, 1995, Bethesda, Maryland) was an American scholar,

Ambassador to the United Nations
.

Education

Bachelor's (1932) and master's (1933) degrees in political science,

Yale (1939).[1]

He was an early associate of , later the Senator and Vice President, whom he assisted in creating Minnesota's Democratic Farmer Labor Party in the 1930's. He taught at the University of Minnesota, where Mr. Humphrey was his student, in the late 1930's and early 1940's.


Intelligence Community

From 1945 served as Assistant Director for Research and Analysis for

CIA's Inspector General in 1953 and Executive Director in 1961, retiring as the Executive Director-Comptroller, the Agency's No. 3 position, in 1965.[3]


Political Science

Taught at the University of Minnesota (teaching Hubert Humphrey, with whom he would later assist in creating the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party), Howard University and Georgetown University.

Executive Director of the American Political Science Association from 1954 to 1981, and president of [[Operations and Policy Research, Inc.]][4]

In 1974 Kirkpatrick was a member of the founding Council of Pi Sigma Alpha, The National Political Science Honor Society[5]

Along with his wife

World Affairs.[7]

Resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, 1981.[8]

In 1989 became director of the United States Institute of Peace.


Personal Life

Publications

"'Toward A More Responsible Two-Party System': Political Science, Policy Science, or Pseudo-Science?" APSR, Vol. 65: 965-990.[1]

Elections - U.S.A., Henry Holt, 1956 [2]

Foundation of Political Science, 1970

The Past and Future of Presidential Debates, 1979


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