Ross, Edward Alsworth (1866-1951)

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Richard Theodore Ely to Jane Addams, July 10, 1906

General Committee on the Limitation of Armament Declaration and Membership, November 1921

Problems of Contemporary Thought, September 1923-June 1924

Jane Addams to Edward Alsworth Ross, April 16, 1906

Jane Addams to Edward A. Ross, March 2, 1907

Jane Addams to Edward A. Ross, January 14, 1911

Jane Addams to Edward Alsworth Ross, September 28, 1915

Edward Alsworth Ross to Jane Addams, January 12, 1911

Jane Addams et al. to William Howard Taft, December 30, 1911

Jane Addams et al. to Friend William Richardson, November 3, 1925

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Birth Date

1866-12-12

Death Date

1951-07-22

Birthplace

Virden, IL

Biographical Text

Edward Alsworth Ross taught at Stanford University, Cornell Universty, and Indiana University. In 1900, after teaching for seven years at Stanford, the administration asked him to leave for his controversial views on Japanese immigration and migrant Chinese labor. Ross then moved on to teach at the University of Nebraska and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was a supporter of Prohibition, eugenics, and the New Deal. Ross died in 1951.

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Sciancalepore, Victoria

Lynn, Stacy

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Male

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1906

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Edward Alsworth Ross, American Sociological Association

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“Ross, Edward Alsworth (1866-1951),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed July 26, 2024, https://mail.digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/1648.