Walter Fairleigh Dodd was a professor in the political science

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 department at Johns Hopkins University

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 who wrote "one of the most important books on the process of amending state constitutions

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Biography

He graduated from Florida State College in 1898, and received a Bachelors in Science from John B. Stetson University

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 in 1901. At the University of Chicago

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, he was a Fellow, 1902-04, and received a Ph. D. in 1905.
In 1904-07, he was in charge of the section of foreign law in the Library of Congress

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. He held a research appointment at Johns Hopkins in 1908-10, in 1910-11 was associate in political science, in 1911-14 assistant professor, and in 1914-15 associate professor of political science in the University of Illinois. After 1915, he was associate professor of political science in the University of Chicago

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He was president of the American Political Science Association

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from 1945-1946.

Works

• The Revision and Amendment of State Constitutions (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1910)
• Administration of workmen's compensation. New York: The Commonwealth Fund; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1936. 845pp. ("This study has been conducted under the auspices of the legal research committee of the commonwealth fund. cf. Foreword.")