James Wilford Garner (November 22, 1871,

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– December 9, 1938) was an

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professor of

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Biography

He graduated from the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1892 and studied at the

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(Ph.M., 1900) and at

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(Ph.D., 1902), where he was a member of the

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. His dissertation, ''Reconstruction in Mississippi'', though critical of

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, was regarded by W. E. B. Du Bois as the fairest of the works of the Dunning School. He was professor of political science at the

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in 1902–1903 and professor of political science at the

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, and he was editor in chief of the ''American Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology'' (1910–1911). He edited ''Essays on Southern History and Politics'' (1914). He was Hyde lecturer in the French universities (1921) and Tagore lecturer in the

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(1922).

Works

* ''Reconstruction in Mississippi'' (1901) * ''The History of the United States'', with

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(four volumes, 1906) * ''Introduction to Political Science'' (1910) * ''Government in the United States, National, State, and Local'' (1911) * ''Civil Government for Indian Students'' (1920) * ''Idées et Institutions Politiques Américaines'' (1921) * ''International Law and the World War'' (1920) * ''Prize Law During the World War'' (1927) *'' political science and government;(1928)

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