Walter Stahr

Walter Stahr was born in Massachusetts, grew up in Southern California, and attended the Phillips Exeter Academy, Stanford University, the Kennedy School of Government, and Harvard Law School. After a twenty-five year career as a lawyer, working in Washington and the Far East, Stahr returned to his first love, American history, to research and write a biography of John Jay. His second book, a biography of William Henry Seward, was published in 2012, and he is now at work on a third book, a biography of Edwin McMasters Stanton. Starting in the fall of 2014, Stahr will teach history at Chapman University in Orange, California, and his wife, Dr. Masami Miyauchi Stahr, will teach mathematics at St. Margaret's Episcopal School in San Juan Capistrano. Walter Stahr's blog and other information are in his website, walterstahr.com.

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