Noteworthy Claremont McKenna Professors Down Through the Ages

Someone keeps deleting my edits to the Claremont McKenna wikipedia page for no apparent reason. I figured now that some of my readership includes the Freshmen class that I would be remiss if I didn't give a rundown of some of the more famous professors. Here they are, with relevant links.

• Fred Balitzer - professor of government. He was director of the Republican National Committee under Reagan, chairman of Scholars for Reagan-Bush in 1984, and special emissary to the Sultan of Brunei. He helped bring about diplomatic relations with China and Israel and played the leading role in preventing efforts to make the District of Columbia a state.
• Mark Blitz - professor of political philosophy. Blitz served as Associate Director of the U.S. Information Agency during the Reagan-Bush years. He is a Straussian scholar.
• Roderic Ai Camp - professor of government at Claremont McKenna College who specializes in Mexican politics.
• Martin Diamond - renowned scholar of the Federalist Papers and American government. He died of a heart attack while defending the Electoral College on Capitol Hill (deceased)
• Ward Elliott - researched market solutions to Los Angeles smog problem. Elliott drafted the economic-incentives of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. Thanks to his efforts, the number of first-stage smog-alerts days declined from one day in three in the 1960's to only one day in 1997.
• Ross Eckert - professor of economics, who dedicated his life to cleaning up the blood supply. The matter affected him personally as he was a hemophilliac who contracted HIV/AIDS from a bad transfusion. Eckert worked with Elliott on market-incentives to reduce congestion. He also worked to rescue the U.S. Laws of the Sea from degradation. (deceased)
• P. Edward Haley -- Professor of international relations
• Eric Helland -- Professor of Economics, Senior Staff Economist, President's Council of Economic Advisers (2003-2004)
• Diane Halpern - former president of the American Psychological Association
• Harry V. Jaffa - professor of political philosophy, scholar of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Aristotelean virtue, and the American founding. The National Review once had a cover story that described Jaffa as "the foremost contemporary interpreter of the American political tradition." Listen to Jaffa's famous lecture on the Declaration of Independence, natural law, and the Declaration's effect on world history. Part 1 and Part 2.
• Charles Kesler - editor of the Claremont Review of Books and noted conservative scholar
• Charles A. Lofgren - professor of government, history, author of the influential books War-Making Under the Constitution: The Original Understanding (1972) and Compulsory Military Service Under the Constitution: The Original Understanding In The Imperial President, Arthur Schlesinger described "War-Making Under the Constitution" as "the indispensable commentary."
• Fredrick Lynch - scholar of affirmative action/reverse racism, author of The Diversity Machine. Lynch is currently working on a book about Social Security, tentatively titled One Nation Under A.A.R.P
• Janet Myhre - professor of mathematics, did consulting work for the Navy to improve the quality control of its nuclear-tipped Poseidon missiles.
• Orme Phelps - (taught from 1947 to 1974), former dean of the faculty and professor of economics. His "Introduction to Labor Economics" has been required reading at over 80 colleges. (deceased)
• John J. Pitney - frequently quoted in the media, former congressional staffer, and opposition researcher. He was the campaign strategist for the Republican National Committee.
• Ron Riggio - president elect of the Western Psychological Association, director Kravis Leadership Institute
• Harold W. Rood - scholar of the Soviet Union, author of the influential book, Kingdom of the Blind (1980), which profoundly influenced thinking on the Soviet Union during the Reagan years.
• Ralph Rossum - renowned scholar of Originalism, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, author of Antonin Scalia’s Jurisprudence: Text and Tradition. He is also a specialist in Indian tribal laws, affirmative action/reverse racism, and juvenile detention. He also favors repealing the 17th Amendment. Listen to Rossum's famous Scalia lecture here. Also, hear Rossum's Ashland University Library lecture on contemporary Supreme Court approaches to constitutional interpretation. Part 1 and Part 2.
  
• John Rutledge - former professor, chairman of Rutledge Capital. He "was one of the principal architects of the Reagan economic plan in 1980-81 and has been an advisor to the Bush White House on tax policy." See his biography at Rutledge Capital.
• Mort Sahl - Speech writer for President John F. Kennedy and famed comedian.
• Elizabeth Edwards Spalding - Professor of government in the Washington Semesters program, renown Harry S. Truman scholar. Listen to Dr. Spalding's podcast lecture on Harry Truman. Part 1 and Part 2.
• Procter Thomson - professor of free-market economics. (deceased)
• Michael Uhlmann - former Assistant Attorney General to President Gerald Ford and special assistant to President Ronald Reagan. He reportedly convinced Justice Clarence Thomas to join the federal judiciary.