Robert Wesson; Political Scientist
Robert Wesson, a political science scholar and Hoover Institution senior research fellow, has died of cancer. He was 71.
Wesson died Saturday at his home on the Stanford University campus. The author of more than 30 books on political science, international affairs, communism and Latin America, Wesson was a writer and researcher in natural science and philosophy.
“I am deeply saddened by Robert’s death. He was a distinguished scholar and his expansive intellectual curiosity was a welcome personal attribute experienced by all at Hoover,” said John Raisian, director of the Hoover Institution.
Before his appointment at Hoover, Wesson was a professor of political science at UC Santa Barbara from 1964 to 1977.
He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Arizona, a master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and his doctoral degree in political science from Columbia University.
Wesson served in the U.S. Foreign Service in Brazil and Colombia and spent several years in other Latin American countries.
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