Background
II, Penn Townsend Kimball, was born on October 12, 1915 in New Britain, Connecticut, United States. Son of Arthur G. and Effie (Smallen) K.
II, Penn Townsend Kimball, was born on October 12, 1915 in New Britain, Connecticut, United States. Son of Arthur G. and Effie (Smallen) K.
Bachelor, Princeton University, 1937; Bachelor, Balliol College, Oxford (England) University, 1939; Master of Arts, Balliol College, Oxford (England) University, 1946; postgraduate, Yale University, 1950-1951; postgraduate, Columbia University, 1951-1958; Master of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1987; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1988.
Reporter, United States News and World Report, 1939-1940;
Reporter, Prime Minister Newspaper, 1940-1941;
contributing editor, Time magazine, 1945-1946;
senior editor, New Republic, 1947;
administrative assistant to, Governor Bowles of Connecticut, 1948-1949;
executive secretary, United States Senator Benton, 1949-1950;
assistant to Sunday editor, New York Times, 1951-1954;
with, television Radio Workshop, Ford Foundation, 1954-1955;
senior editor, Colliers, 1955-1956;
partner, Louis Harris & Associates, New York City, 1957-1958;
administrative assistant to, Governor Harriman of New York, 1958;
professor, Columbia Graduate School Journalism, 1959-1985;
professor emeritus, Columbia Graduate School Journalism, since 1986;
member administrative board, Bureau Applied Social Research, 1963-1967;
consultant editor, Harris Survey, 1963-1974;
faculty, Salzburg (Austria) Seminar in American Studies, 1967. Visiting lecturer Dartmouth, University of California at Berkeley, U. Connecticut, New School for Social Research, U. Washington. Haas lecturer in broadcast journalism U. Washington, 1987.
Visiting scholar Joint Center for Political Studies, 1988-1989. Guest scholar Woodrow Wilson International Center for scholars, 1991-1992.
Secretary committee on appropriations Connecticut General Assembly, 1949, member citizens commission, 1968-1969, member board finance, Westport, Connecticut, 1953-1955, member charter commission, 1957, justice of peace, 1959-1960, representative town meeting, 1959-1963. Member Connecticut Constitutional Convention, 1965. Faculty National Urban Fellows summer program Yale, 1969-1970.
Director public affairs Urban Development Corporation, State New York, 1971-1972. Member national advisory committee election systems project National Municipal League-League Women Voters, 1971-1973. Assistant director Son of Bronx Development Organization, 1979-1980.
Served to captain United States Marine Corps Reserve, 1941-1945, PTO. Major Reserve (retired). Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Author's League, American Association Public Opinion Research, Phi Beta Kappa.
Clubs: National Press (Washington).
Married Janet Evelyn Fraser, April 8, 1947 (deceased 1982). 1 child, Elisabeth Kimball. Married Julie M. Ellis, July 27, 1985.