| Roy Franklin Nichols Born: 3-Mar-1896
Birthplace: Newark, NJ
Died: 12-Jan-1973
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Religion: Baptist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Historian Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Disruption of American Democracy Father: Franklin Coriell Nichols
Mother: Annie Cairns
Wife: Jeannette Paddoch (until his death, d. 1982)
University: BA, Rutgers University (1918)
University: MA, Rutgers University (1919)
University: PhD, Columbia University (1923)
Professor: History, University of Pennsylvania (1925-66)
Dean: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania (1952-66)
American Historical Association President (1965-66)
American Philosophical Society
Cosmos Club
Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Pi Gamma Mu Honor Society
Social Science Research Council Chairman
Pulitzer Prize for History 1949 for The Disruption of American Democracy
Author of books:
The Democratic Machine, 1850-1854 (1923, politics)
The Disruption of American Democracy (1948, politics)
Advance Agents of American Destiny (1956, international affairs)
Franklin Pierce: Young Hickory of the Granite Hills (1958, biography)
Religion and American Democracy (1959, politics)
Blueprints for Leviathan: American Style (1963, politics)
The Invention of the American Political Parties (1967, politics)
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