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Arthur F. Bentley  

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  • Arthur F. Bentley was born in Freeport, Illinois, and died in Paoli, Indiana. A political theorist, he took part in the revolt against formalism carried on by Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929), Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841–1935), Roscoe Pound (1870–1964), and John Dewey (1859–1952).In 1892, at Johns Hopkins, Bentley met the economist Richard Ely (1854–1943), who influenced Bentley's early scholarly work. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Bentley, Arthur F. (1870–1957)]

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