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The Political Career of Chancellor Dean Eugene McHenry Before UC Santa Cruz

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  • Born on a bean farm near Lompoc, California. Attends school in Lompoc.

    Born on a bean farm near Lompoc, California. Attends school in Lompoc.

  • 1925-1928 Moves to Van Nuys and attends Van Nuys High School (City of Los Angeles)

  • 1928 Enters the University of California, Los Angeles (nine years after its opening)

    1928 Enters the University of California, Los Angeles (nine years after its opening)

  • B.A., University of California, Los Angeles (Political Science major; student body president)

    Becomes president of Associated Students at UCLA

  • M.A. degree in political science at Stanford University.

    Master’s thesis is on lobbying in the California Legislature and called “The Third House – A Study of Organized Groups before the California Legislature.”

  • Enters Stanford University

    Meets Clark Kerr and future wife Jane Snyder during his first week at Stanford.

  • Fall quarter enters UC Berkeley graduate school

  • Works for EPIC [End Poverty in California] in Los Angeles and for Upton Sinclair’s campaign for governor of California. Serves as Chairman, Planning Committee, Northern California Division of the EPIC Young People’s League

    Works for EPIC [End Poverty in California] in Los Angeles and for Upton Sinclair’s campaign for governor of California. Serves as Chairman, Planning Committee, Northern California Division of the EPIC Young People’s League

  • Research Assistant at the Bureau of Public Administration (UCB)

    1934-35

  • Marries Jane Snyder

  • Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (Political Science)

  • Instructor in Political Science, Williams College

    1936-37

  • Assistant Professor of Political Science, Pennsylvania State University

    1937-1939

  • Publishes The Labour Party in Transition, 1931-1938

  • Assistant Professor, Political Science University of California, Los Angeles

    1939-1945

  • Becomes a member of the State Agricultural Prorate Advisory Commission

  • Member of a Special Committee to Investigate Milk Marketing in the Los Angeles area

  • Member of the Advisory Board to Selective Service Local Board No. 245

    1942-1943

  • Public Representative and Panel Chairman of the National War Labor Board

  • Fulbright Lecturer in Australia

  • Publishes California Government (2nd Edition, 1949)

  • 1945-1950--Associate Professor, Political Science, UCLA

  • Takes a sabbatical leave from UCLA to be a Fellow of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, for travel and research in New Zealand and Australia

  • Dean, Division of Social Sciences, UCLA

    1947-1950

  • Publishes The American Federal Government (9th Edition, 1967)

  • Joins editorial board of the Western Political Quarterly

  • Commissioned as Captain, U. S. Marine Corps Reserve. Serves until 1960

  • Works on James Roosevelt II’s gubernatorial campaign

  • Publishes The Third Force in Canada

  • Publishes Elements of American Government (7th Edition, 1966)

  • Enters the November recall election as a candidate against Los Angeles Mayor Fletcher Bowron

  • Chairman, Political Science Department, UCLA

    1950-1952

  • Professor of Political Science, UCLA

    1950-1963

  • Publishes American Government Today

  • Runs for Congress

  • Publishes State and Local Government in California

  • Director of the State of Nevada University Survey, 1955-1956

  • Publishes California Government and Politics (4th Edition, 1967)

  • Chair of faculty study of new campuses of University of California

  • November: Director of the Survey of Higher Education in Kansas City

  • Speech writer for Edmund G. “Pat” Brown during his gubernatorial campaign

  • Member of the California Governor’s Organization Advisory Committee

  • Member of the Master Plan Survey of Higher Education for California, 1959-1960

  • University Dean of Academic Planning, UC, University-wide [UCOP], 1960-1963

  • Joins Clark Kerr in drafting California’s Master Plan for Higher Education

  • Appointed founding Chancellor, University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC)