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Advisory Board

A nine-member advisory board consisting of teachers, media specialists, and other experts on U.S. government was consulted to help determine the scope and content of Presidential Administration Profiles for Students.

Howard Ball: Professor of Political Science, University of Vermont

Marion J. Cannon: Library Media Specialist, Winter Park High School, Winter Park, Florida

Catherine Chauvette: Library Media Specialist, Fairfax County Public Library, Alexandria, Virginia

Fran Cohen: Library Media Specialist (retired), Conestoga High School, Berwyn, Pennsylvania

Michael D. Leahy, Ph.D.: Library Media Specialist (retired), Eastern High School, Bristol, Connecticut

Frank J. Orfei: History Department, Pelham Memorial High School, Pelham, New York

Harriet B. Sawyer: Social Studies Department Chair, Franklin High School, Livonia, Michigan

Jay A. Sigler, Ph.D.: Professor of Public Policy and Administration, Rutgers University

Lavonna Brown Williams: Educator, Minot Public School District, Minot, North Dakota; Bonneville Joint School District, Bonneville, Idaho

Contributors

Patrick Allitt, Ph.D.: Professor of History, Emory University. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, and Harry S. Truman profiles.

John Barnes: Woodrow Wilson profile.

Sheree Beaudry: Researcher. Gerald R. Ford profile (with Rita Koman, Ph.D.).

David Bernelle: James Monroe profile.

Robert Bolt, Ph.D.: Professor Emeritus of History, Calvin College. Grover Cleveland, Millard Fillmore, Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, and Zachary Taylor profiles.

Daniel E. Brannen, Jr.: Attorney and writer. John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson (with Linda Miller, Ph.D.), and Franklin Pierce profiles.

Lloyd Carson: James Madison profile

Craig Collins: Researcher and writer. Andrew Jackson, John Tyler, and Martin Van Buren profiles.

Justus D. Doenecke, Ph.D.: Professor of History, New College of South Florida, Sarasota. Chester A. Arthur, James Garfield, and Herbert C. Hoover profiles.

Kenneth E. Hendrickson, Jr., Ph.D.: Hardin Distinguished Professor, Chair, Department of History, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, Texas. Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, and Franklin D. Roosevelt profiles.

James W. Hilty, Ph.D.: Professor and former Chair of the History Department, Temple University, Philadelphia. John F. Kennedy profile.

Robert La Forte, Ph.D.: Professor of History, University of North Texas, Denton. Benjamin Harrison profile.

Thomas C. Mackey, Ph.D.: Associate Professor and Chair of the History Department, University of Louisville. Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Rutherford B. Hayes profiles.

Hannah Nordhaus: Writer and researcher, M.A. in history, University of Colorado. James Buchanan, George Bush, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and William McKinley profiles.

Jason Phillips, Ph.D.: Political science. William Henry Harrison and James K. Polk profiles.

Michael Robertson: Biography sidebars.

Thom Sherlock, Ph.D.: Associate Professor of Political Science, United States Military Academy at West Point. George Washington profile.

Walter E. Volkommer, Ph.D.: Professor, Department of Political Science, Hunter College of The City University of New York. Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge profiles.