Charles Ray Ritcheson (born 1926-02-26 in Maysville, Oklahoma) is an American diplomat, university administrator, and scholar of Anglo-American relations in the period 1760-1815.
The son of Charles Frederick Ritcheson and Jewell Vaughan, Rictheson was raised in Oklahoma and attended the University of Oklahoma. Interrupting his studies, he served in the U.S. Naval Reserve from 1942 to 1945, becoming a Lieutenant, Junior Grade. After the end of the...
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Charles Ray Ritcheson (born 1926-02-26 in Maysville, Oklahoma) is an American diplomat, university administrator, and scholar of Anglo-American relations in the period 1760-1815.
The son of Charles Frederick Ritcheson and Jewell Vaughan, Rictheson was raised in Oklahoma and attended the University of Oklahoma. Interrupting his studies, he served in the U.S. Naval Reserve from 1942 to 1945, becoming a Lieutenant, Junior Grade. After the end of the war, Ritcheson returned to his studies and obtained his bachelor of arts degree in 1946. After postgraduate study at Zurich University in 1947 and Harvard University in 1948, he went to St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he was awarded his D.Phil. in 1951 with a thesis on "The impact of the American problem on British politics, 1760-1780".
In 1951, Oklahoma College for Women appointed him assistant professor of history and then promoted him to associate professor in 1952. Kenyon College appointed him associate professor in 1953 and professor in...
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