Correspondence with Johan Thorsten Sellin, 1956-1957.

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Correspondence with Johan Thorsten Sellin, 1956-1957.

Items relate to the Governor's Commission on Penal and Correctional Affairs, for which Sellin was chairman. Correspondents are James Charlesworth (secretary of administration for the Governor) and William Mather (head of the Pennsylvania State University Dept. of Sociology)

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Charlesworth, James C. (James Clyde), 1900-1974

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Professor of political science at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He was president of the American Academy of Political and Social Science from 1953 to 1970. From the description of American political theories : unpublished typescript, [not before 1964]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155862659 ...

Pennsylvania. Office of the Governor

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Mather, William G. (William Green), 1901-

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William Green Mather (1901-1987) obtained his bachelor of science degree from Denison University in 1924, his bachelor of divinity degree from Rochester Theological Seminary in 1927, when he became an ordained Baptist clergyman, and his master's and doctoral degrees in rural sociology from Cornell University in 1935 and 1936, respectively. From 1934 to 1942 Mather was head of the department of sociology and economics at Franklin College. From 1942 to 1945 he served as a professor of sociology fo...