Background
Sargent, Lyman Tower was born on February 9, 1940 in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Stanley Morse and Doris Ellen (Tower) Sargent.
academic administrator Political science educator
Sargent, Lyman Tower was born on February 9, 1940 in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Stanley Morse and Doris Ellen (Tower) Sargent.
Bachelor, Macalester College, 1961; Master of Arts, University of Minnesota, 1962; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, 1965.
Assistant professor political science, U. Missouri, St. Louis, 1965-1970;
director political science laboratory, U. Missouri, St. Louis, 1968-1969;
associate professor, U. Missouri, St. Louis, 1970=75;
director undergraduate studies, U. Missouri, St. Louis, 1972-1975, 84-85;
professor, U. Missouri, St. Louis, since 1975;
chair department political science, U. Missouri, St. Louis, 1969-1971., 75-78, since 1992. Visiting professor U. Exeter, England, 1978-1979, 83-84. Member school of history studies, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, New Jersey, 1981-1982.
Honorary curatorUtopia Collection, Thomas Jefferson Library., U. Missouri, St. Louis, since 1986.
(Book by Sargent, Lyman Tower)
Member Society for Utopian Studies (chairman 1986-1990), Communal Studies Association(board directors 1989-1992), Conference for Study Political Thought (at-large).
Married Patricia M. McGinnis Wilhelm (divorced). Married Mary T. Weiler (divorced).