Richard Longaker

Richard Pancoast Longaker was an American political scientist who served as provost and vice president of academic affairs of Johns Hopkins University from 1976 to 1986. He played an important role in the founding of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in 1983. He was a professor of political science at UCLA. He was educated at Swarthmore College with a B.A., received an M.A. from the University of Wisconsin, and a Ph.D. from Cornell in 1953.

• The President as International Leader (1956)
• The Presidency and Individual Liberties (1961)
• Moulding a republic: The Federalist papers (1965)
• American Constitutional Government (1967)
• High school law program: Attorney's source book (1973)
• Conflict, politics, and freedom with Charles N Quigley (1976)