Emmette Redford (September 23, 1904 – January 30, 1998) was an American political scientist. He attended

Midland College Midland College (MC) is a public community college in Midland, Texas. It was established as an independent junior college in 1972 and held its first classes on campus in 1975. Since that time, the campus has expanded to a main campus on in Mi ...

, Midland, Texas and Southwest Texas State Teachers College (now

Texas State University Texas State University is a public research university in San Marcos, Texas. Since its establishment in 1899, the university has grown to the second largest university in the Greater Austin metropolitan area and the fifth largest university ...

), finally graduating from The University of Texas at Austin. He received a Ph.D. in government from Harvard in 1933. He was born in

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. He grew up in

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at the same time as

Lyndon B. Johnson Lyndon Baines Johnson (; August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. He had previously served as the 37th vice ...

, and Redford and Johnson knew each other when they were children. During World War II, he worked for four years in the Office of Price Administration. He became a full professor at the University of Texas in 1939 and the Ashbel Smith Professor of Government in 1963. When the

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was founded, he became the Ashbel Smith Professor of Government and Public Affairs in 1970. Redford was a President of the American Political Science Association. He edited a 13-volume history of the Lyndon B. Johnson Administration.

Publications

*''Democracy in the Administrative State'' *''American Government and the Economy''

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1904 births 1998 deaths Texas State University alumni University of Texas at Austin alumni Harvard University alumni University of Texas at Austin faculty American political scientists People from Midland, Texas People from San Antonio Public administration scholars 20th-century political scientists {{polisci-bio-stub