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William Graham Sumner  

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  • William Graham Sumner (1840–1910) is credited with teaching the first sociology course in the United States. He was one of the founders of the American Sociological Society movement and its second president. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Theory; Sumner, William Graham]

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