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Samuel Phillips Huntington

Martha'S Vineyard, Massachusetts

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HUNTINGTON, Samuel Phillips 81, a resident of Boston, was the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University, where he taught for fifty-eight years before his retirement in 2007. A gifted teacher and scholar, he was mentor to a generation of scholars in widely divergent...

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Sam was a wonderful friend and mentor when I had the privilege of working with him at CFIA in the 1970s and '80s. He was generous, always thoughtful, conscientiously argumentative and confident when he was right (which was often but not always the case). Political Order in Changing Societies is, in my view, still the outstanding work of the twentieth century in comparative politics. Sam will be missed as a provocative and brilliant scholar, but also as a surprisingly gentle soul. I can...

My deepest sympathy to Nancy and the Huntingtonfamily. Be assured of my prayers and thoughts for you in this difficult time.