Leach, Richard H(eald) 1922-2004
LEACH, Richard H(eald) 1922-2004
OBITUARY NOTICE—
See index for CA sketch: Born May 30, 1922, in Denver, CO; died January 27, 2004, in Durham, NC. Educator and author. Leach was a professor emeritus of political science at Duke University. His undergraduate work was completed at Colorado College in 1944, followed by an M.A. in 1949 and Ph.D. in 1951, both from Princeton University. His academic career began at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he was an assistant professor from 1949 to 1953. For the next two years he was a staff associate for graduate programs at the Southern Regional Education Board in Atlanta; he then joined the Duke faculty as an assistant professor in 1955. Leach remained at Duke for the remainder of his career, becoming a full professor in 1965 and directing the Canadian Studies Center from 1979 to 1986. He was the author of several books, including Governing the American Nation (1967), Improving Urban America: A Challenge to Federalism (1976), and, with Timothy G. O'Rourke, State and Local Government: The Third Century of Federalism (1988). Leach also edited a number of scholarly works, such as Compacts of Antiquity: State Constitutions (1969) and Canada's New Constitution (1983).
OBITUARIES AND OTHER SOURCES:
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Colorado College Bulletin,http://www2.coloradocollege.edu/ (July, 2001).