Robert Horn, 85; Taught Political Science

Robert Horn, 85, a longtime political science professor at Stanford University and a noted expert in constitutional law, died March 5 of natural causes at his home in Palo Alto.

Born in Greenville, Ohio, Horn earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Ohio Wesleyan University and master’s and doctoral degrees in political science from Princeton. During World War II and the Korean War, he worked in the U.S. Army’s psychological warfare unit.

He taught at Harvard, the University of Chicago and Sophia University in Japan before joining the Stanford faculty in 1953. He retired in 1979.

Horn left a scholarly legacy through his teaching and influenced a number of students who went on to important legal or political careers, among them Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.).

“His course was so fascinating; it taught how we Americans organize a society,” Baucus said. “He changed my life. I would not have gone into the U.S. Senate without him.”