Ruth S. Morgenthau, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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professor of international politics at Brandeis University and an advisor to President Jimmy Carter
Date of Birth: 26-Jan-1931
Date of Death: 04-Nov-2006
Profession: political scientist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Ruth S. Morgenthau
- Ruth Schachter Morgenthau (January 26, 1931 – November 4, 2006), was a professor of international politics at Brandeis University and an advisor to President Jimmy Carter on rural development in poor countries. She was born in Vienna.
- Her parents, Osias and Mizia Kramer Schachter, owned a textile importing company until they fled from the Nazis in 1940.
- She graduated from Barnard College in 1952, then attended the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris as a Fulbright scholar.
- In 1958, she received a doctorate in politics from Oxford.In 1964, she wrote "Political Parties in French-Speaking West Africa," which won the 1965 Herskovitz Prize.She was a member of the United States Mission to the United Nations, and in 1988 ran unsuccessfully as a Democratic candidate for Congress in Rhode Island.
- She was an advocate of ''bottom-up'' aid to farmers and villagers in the third world.
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