Arthur N. Holcombe

Arthur Norman Holcombe was born in Winchester, Massachusetts, on November 3, 1884, dead on December 9, 1977. American educator.

He received a BA at Harvard University in 1906 and a Ph.D. at the same university three years later. On August 30, 1910, he married Carolyn H. Crossett. They had five children. In 1964, he married Hadassah Moore Leeds Parrot.

Arthur Norman Holcombe split his career between public service and teaching. He was credited with establishing political philosophy and theory as basic disciplines in Harvard’s government curriculum. Among his students were John F. Kennedy, Henry Kissinger and Henry Cabot Lodge.

In 1949, he assisted Chiang Kai-shek in the drafting of a constitution for the Republic of China. In 1955, he retired as Eaton Professor of the Sciences of Government to become chairman of the Committee to Study the Organization of Peace, an affiliate of the American Association for the United Nations.

Works

*"The Spirit of the Chinese Revolution." New York: Alfred Knopf, 1930.