19 Facts About Herbert Storing

1.

Herbert J Storing was an American political scientist with broad ranging interests who is best known for reviving the serious study of the American Founding.

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Herbert Storing then attended the University of Chicago, earning his AM in 1951 and Ph.

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3.

Herbert Storing was a Fulbright Scholar to the United Kingdom from 1953 to 1955 and received research grants from the Rockefeller, Ford, and Relm Foundations and from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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4.

Herbert Storing was Visiting Charles Evans Hughes Professor of Jurisprudence at Colgate University from 1968 to 1969, and part-time professor of political science at Northern Illinois University from 1969 to 1975.

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5.

Herbert Storing helped write speeches for President Gerald Ford and, together with Martin Diamond, testified before Congress regarding the Electoral College.

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6.

At the time of his death in September 1977, Herbert Storing was Robert Kent Gooch Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia, where he served as director of the Study of the Presidency at the White Burkett Miller Center for Public Affairs.

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7.

Herbert Storing was a member of the President's Commission on White House Fellows.

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In contrast, Herbert Storing helped create a new approach to the American founding within the fields of political science and political theory, one whose principles held that the thought of the American founders could and should be understood as relevant to the contemporary study of politics.

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Indeed, as Herbert Storing emphasizes in his essay, "The Other Federalists, " most writers from the founding period were bound to the consensus opinions of their times.

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10.

Herbert Storing began teaching and writing about race and politics well before the topic became important for the field of political science.

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11.

For example, Storing published his first writing on race and politics, "The School of Slavery: A Reconsideration of Booker T Washington, " in 1964, whereas the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics section of the American Political Science Association was not founded until 1995.

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Relatedly, Herbert Storing articulated and developed Frederick Douglass' critique of the constitutional theory that was shared by the radical abolitionists—such as William Lloyd Garrison—and the defenders of slavery—such as Roger Brooke Taney.

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Herbert Storing emphasized the importance of the common good, as opposed to the mere aggregation of competing goods, in thinking about how individuals and groups relate to the polity to which they belong.

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14.

Relatedly, Herbert Storing distinguished between different conceptions of statesmanship and how they relate to constitutional government.

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15.

Herbert Storing was born on January 29,1928, in Ames, Iowa.

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16.

Herbert Storing's father, James A Storing, was a professor, Provost and, for a time, acting president of Colgate University.

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17.

Herbert Storing served in the US Army after World War II, from 1946 to 1948.

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18.

Herbert Storing regularly provided his graduate students with further opportunities to learn outside of the classroom, hosting extra-curricular seminars as well as reading groups.

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19.

Herbert Storing's logic straightened his thought without hardening his heart; his students learned from his example the difference between sentiment and sentimentality.

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