Frederic Austin Ogg

Frederic Austin Ogg (1878–1951) was an American political scientist and historian. Born in Indiana, he studied at Harvard and taught at Simmons College and Harvard before joining the University of Wisconsin in 1914, where he remained until his retirement. His textbooks, among them The Governments of Europe (1913), Social Progress in Contemporary Europe (1912), English Government and Politics (1929) and, with P. Orman Ray, Introduction to American Government, were used in colleges across the country for decades. He edited the American Political Science Review from 1926 to 1949 and served as president of the American Political Science Association in 1941.