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 &lsquo;Modern Constitutions&rsquo; (2 vols., 1909); &lsquo;Government of the District of Columbia&rsquo; (1909); &lsquo;Revision and Amendment of State Constitutions&rsquo; (1910), also contributions to legal and other technical journals.