William Starr Myers

Born in 1877 and educated at Princeton, William Starr Myers built his career as a historian, political scientist, and teacher closely connected with the university. He wrote on American political life and was especially interested in government, parties, and public leadership.

His published work includes studies of political figures and institutions, along with historical writing on major American organizations. Records from Princeton identify him as a member of the faculty, and library sources show that his books ranged from political history to commissioned institutional history, including Fifty Years of the Prudential: The History of a Business Charged with Public Interest, 1875–1925.

Myers died in 1956. Though not a widely read popular author today, his work offers a window into the way American history and politics were studied and explained in the first half of the twentieth century.