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WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER (1840-1910)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 83 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:GRAHAM See also:SUMNER (1840-1910)  , See also:American economist, was See also:born, of See also:English parentage, in See also:Paterson, New See also:Jersey, on the 3oth of See also:October 184o . He was brought up in See also:Hartford, See also:Connecticut, graduated at Yale See also:College in 1863, studied See also:French and See also:Hebrew in See also:Geneva in 1863-1864 and divinity and See also:history at See also:Gottingen in 1864-1866, and in 1866-1869 was a See also:tutor at Yale . He was ordained a See also:priest of the See also:Protestant Episcopal See also:Church in 1869, was assistant See also:rector of See also:Calvary Church, New See also:York See also:City, and in 1870-1872 was rector of the Church of the Redeemer, See also:Morristown, New Jersey . From 1872 to 1909, when he became See also:professor See also:emeritus, he was professor of See also:political and social See also:science at Yale . In 1909 he was See also:president of the American Sociological Society . He died at See also:Englewood, New Jersey, on the 12th of See also:April 191o . He was notable especially as an opponent of protectionism, and was a See also:great teacher . He wrote: History of American Currency (1874); Lectures on the History of See also:Protection in the See also:United States (1875) ; See also:Life of See also:Andrew See also:Jackson (1882), in the " American Statesmen See also:Series "; What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (1883); Collected Essays in Political and Social Sciences (1885) ; Protectionism (1885) ; See also:Alexander See also:Hamilton (1891), and See also:Robert See also:Morris (1891), in the" Makers of See also:America Series "; The Financier and Finances of the American . Revolution (a vols., 1891) ; A History of Banking in the United States (1896); and Folkways: a Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, See also:Manners, Customs, Mores and Morals (1907), a valuable sociological See also:summary .

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