Robert E. RUIGH

RUIGH

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 11/27/2008 at 22:54:45

Robert E. Ruigh, professor emeritus of history at the University of Missouri-Columbia, died in St. Louis on December 12, 1991. He was born in Meservey, Iowa in 1925. After serving in the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II, he studied as a Fulbright scholar at Oxford University in 1952–53 and earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1966. While studying as a graduate student, he taught at Brandeis and Harvard universities. In 1963 he joined the faculty of Loyola College in Montreal, and in 1969 he moved to the University of Missouri-Columbia. He published The Parliament of 1624: Politics and Foreign Policy (Harvard University Press, 1971).
He is survived by a son and a daughter.

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