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John Anthony Rohr (July 31, 1934 – August 10, 2011)''Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014''.
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was an American political scientist who was Professor Emeritus at the
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. Rohr is particularly known as a leading scholar of the U.S.
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in relationship to civil servants and
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. He also received the prestigious Dwight Waldo Award from the American Society for Public Administration in 2002 for contributions to the literature and leadership of public administration. He was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., and Fellow of the National Academy of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. One of Rohr's argument is that the
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pervades American society. Rohr wrote the book, ''Prophets Without Honor,'' which talked about the issue of Selective Conscientious Objection to war, detailing both the pros and cons of the possibility of such a policy. While not a Straussian in the sense of, say,
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, Rohr was a student of Leo Strauss during a famous period of political theory training at the
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that heavily influenced his future work and legendary seminar teaching style. He died in
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, in 2011.John Anthony Rohr; ''Virginia, Death Records, 1912-2014''


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John Rohr honored with emeritus status
Virginia Tech University. Accessed 2011-03-11.


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* 1934 births 2011 deaths People from Chicago American political scientists Virginia Tech faculty People from Blacksburg, Virginia Public administration scholars {{polisci-bio-stub