The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Dodd, Walter Fairleigh
DODD, Walter Fairleigh, American
educator: b. Hopkinsville, Ky., 7 April 1880. He
was graduated from Florida State College in
1898. In 1905 he took the degree of D.Ph. at
the University of Chicago. In 1904-07 he was
in charge of the section of foreign law in the
Library of Congress. He held a research
appointment at Johns Hopkins in 1908-10, in
1910-11 was associate in political science, in
1911-14 assistant professor, and in 1914-15
associate professor of political science in the
University of Illinois. Since 1915 he has been associate
professor of political science in the University
of Chicago. He has published ‘Modern
Constitutions’ (2 vols., 1909); ‘Government of
the District of Columbia’ (1909); ‘Revision
and Amendment of State Constitutions’ (1910),
also contributions to legal and other technical
journals.