12 Facts About Richard Fenno

Richard Fenno was Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Rochester.

Richard Fenno published numerous books and scholarly articles focused on how members of Congress interacted with each other, with committees, and with constituents.

Richard Fenno grew up in Boston and served in the US Navy during World War II.

Richard Fenno moved in 1958 to the University of Rochester where he spent his career.

Richard Fenno wrote about Republicans and Democrats and explored rural, urban and African American congressional districts in depth.

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Riker focused on positive political science, while Richard Fenno focused on establishing Rochester as a center for congressional studies.

Richard Fenno built the first internship program for undergraduates to work in Congress.

Rather than relying primarily on data sets or rational choice theory, Richard Fenno undertook empirical observation of the movements of political actors on the stage of politics.

Richard Fenno won the American Political Science Association's Woodrow Wilson Award for the best book in political science in 1978 for Home Style.

Richard Fenno served as book review editor of the American Political Science Review, as a director of the Social Science Research Council, and as president of APSA.

Richard Fenno was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American Philosophical Society.

Richard Fenno died in Mount Kisco, New York on April 21,2020, from the effects of COVID-19.