Ernest Stacey Griffith

Background

Dr. Griffith was born on November 28, 1986, in Utica, New York, United States.

Education

Griffith received his education at Hamilton College in Clinton. He also received his doctorate from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in 1925.

Career

After serving in the U.S. Navy during World War I, Griffith accepted a teaching post at Princeton University. Throughout the years, Griffith taught at Syracuse University, American University, and was a visiting lecturer at Oxford, Harvard, and New York University, among others. From 1940 to 1958 he served as the director of the Legislative Reference Service for the Library of Congress, now known as the Congressional Research Service.

Ernest's first book, a two-volume work titled The Modern Development of City Government in the United Kingdom and the United States, was published in 1927 and reprinted in 1973.

Ernest's other works include The Modern Government in Action, The Impasse of Democracy, Congress: Its Contemporary Role, The American Presidency, High School Crossroads, and The American System of Government. He also contributed to several anthologies, including Introduction to Politics (R. V. Peel and J. S. Roucek, editors), Perspectives on Conservation (Henry Jarret, editor), and American Diplomacy in a New Era (S. D. Kertesz, editor).

Achievements

• Griffin gained acclaim in the field of political science for his writings about the U.S. governmental system.

Works

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  • A History of American City Government: The Conspicuous Failure, 1870-1900

    (In the last thirty years of the nineteenth century, the c...)

    1974
  • A History of American City Government: The Progressive Years and Their Aftermath, 1900-1920 1983
  • American Presidency: The Dilemmas of Shared Power and Divided Government 1976

Membership

• Wilderness Society , United States

  1942 - 1972

Connections

Surviving are two daughters, Margo Earley and Alison Tennyson; two sons, Lawrence and Stephen; 13 grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren.

Father:

George Griffith

Mother:

Elizabeth Stacey

Stepmother:

Mary C. Hill

Daughter:

Margo Earley

Daughter:

Alison Tennyson

Son:

Lawrence Griffith

Son:

Stephen Griffith