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American political scientist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sarah Wambaugh (March 6, 1882 – November 12, 1955) was an American political scientist.
Sarah Wambaugh | |
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| Born | March 6, 1882 |
| Died | November 12, 1955 (aged 73) |
| Education | Radcliffe College, A.B. (1902), A.M. (1917) |
| Father | Eugene Wambaugh |
She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the daughter of legal scholar Eugene Wambaugh. She earned an A.B. in 1902[1] and an A.M. in 1917 from Radcliffe College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she also later taught. She also carried out studies in England; in London and Oxford.
Wambaugh eventually became recognized as the world's leading authority on plebiscites.[2][3] Wambaugh had joined the membership of the Secretariat of the League of Nations in 1920.[4] She was an advisor to the Peruvian government for the Tacna-Arica Plebiscite (1925–26), to the Saar Plebiscite Commission (1934–35), to the American observers of the Greek national elections (1945–46) and to the U.N. Plebiscite Commission to Jammu and Kashmir (1949). During World War II she was a consultant to the director of the enemy branch of the Foreign Economic Administration.[5] She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1944.[6] She died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on November 12, 1955.
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