Senator Phil Gramm is retiring from the U.S. Senate at the end of his term in 2002. He has expressed interest in the vacant position of President of Texas A&M University, where he taught economics for 12 years. Like many politicians, Gramm doesn't make much hay about his doctorate--I doubt that would play all that well in Texas. When I lived in San Antonio, then-Mayor Henry Cisneros taught at night at St. Mary's with his Ph.D. from George Washington University. (The mayor's job at America's 10th largest city was technically part-time, paying about $20K annually.) It was acknowledged, but not trumpeted in his campaigns. Senator Gramm holds a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia, earned in 1967. A search at www.contentville.com shows his dissertation was/is 85 pages long (inclusive), and titled "Constant Taste and the Theory of Demand." Other politicians holding doctorates: Woodrow Wilson and Newt Gingrich. Wilson's dissertation is unavailable. Gingich's was 307 pages and titled "BELGIAN EDUCATION POLICY IN THE CONGO, 1945-1960." Others? Rich Douglas
Here are two that are still serving: Dick Armey, U.S. House (R, TX); Dissertation: “Economic Externalities and the Theories of Balanced and Unbalanced Growth”, University of Oklahoma, 1969. Paul Wellstone, U.S. Senator (D, MN); Dissertation: “Black Militants in the Ghetto: Why They Believe in Violence”, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1969. Mark
Robert Filner, U.S. House (D, CA) Dissertation (491 pages): Science and Politics in England, 1930-1945: The Social Relations of Science Movement. Ph.D., Cornell University, 1973 ------------------ Bill Gossett
Our National Security Advisor: Condoleezza Rice, Ph.D. THE POLITICS OF CLIENT COMMAND: PARTY-MILITARY RELATIONS IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA: 1948-1975 Our Vice-President's wife: Lynne Cheney, Ph.D. MATTHEW ARNOLD'S POSSIBLE PERFECTION: A STUDY OF THE KANTIAN STRAIN IN ARNOLD'S POETRY JMW
I forgot Daniel Patrick Moynihan (U.S. Senate and UN Ambassador), Ph.D., Tufts University, 1961... Mark
Buy it from UMI http://disexpress.umi.com BELGIAN EDUCATION POLICY IN THE CONGO, 1945-1960 by GINGRICH, NEWTON LEROY Ph.D., Tulane University, 1971, 307 pages; AAT 7203881
Thanks for the link. Proquest is kind of proud of their work with grad schools, 37 bucks! Maybe Ill write the former Speaker
One of my professors ( now emeritus) at North Carolina Wesleyan College graduated the year after Gingrich at Tulane in the PhD program. He did not say much about him.
General Petraeus holds a PhD from Princeton: The American military and the lessons of Vietnam : a study of military influence and the use of force in the post-Vietnam era (Thesis/dissertation, 1987) [WorldCat.org]
