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**William Graham Sumner**
====**__Occupation:__** William graduated from Yale (educated in political economy) in the middle of the Civil War occuring. The immigration, sectionalism of the South and North, the development of urban areas, land quickly being occupied by residents, and the the beginning breakdown of a independent middle class all shaped WIlliam's view of society. The unique ways of Darwin and Spencer influenced WIlliam of the advances of biological sciences; he constructed views towards the evolutionary concept of society with the use of biological analogies. He studied abroad, preparing for a career in ministry. He attended Geneva and Gottingen and Oxford, to grasp new language and theology. He prompty returned to the United States, serving for a brief time as a Episcopalian curate. In 1872, he specialized himself as a professor of political and social science in Yale College. After 3 years, he teached for the first time sociology on the continent using information given by Herbert Spencer's __The Study of Sociology__. He seeked sociology in a new level marked by traditional politics, detailed information on social evolution, and the relative nature of normative systems.====

====**__Position on Issue:__** William Graham Sumner was an anti-imperalism. He was vce president of the Anti-Imperalist League which was created afterwards due to the annexation of territories. He believed that imperalism went against teh principles, traditions, and common interest of the American people. The very thought imperalism went against the established "equal rights that would be judged only by justice and the basic founding laws." There was a theory stated by him that imperalism would lead to business people relying on the government for contracts and subsidies.====

====**__Reasons__**: His major works included biographies on thematic studies that involved currency, banking, business cycles, foreign trade, protectionalism, and democratic politics. He had the ability to review modern democracy and explain how it would evolve to the twentieth century precisely. He is known for his works of "//The Conquest of the United States by Spain and Other Essays" he had published.//====

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