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John Rensenbrink was born on 30 August, 1928 in Pease, Minnesota, U.S., is an American political scientist (1928–2022). Discover John Rensenbrink's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 93 years old?

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Occupation Political scientist conservationist co-founder of the Green Party
Age 93 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 30 August, 1928
Birthday 30 August
Birthplace Pease, Minnesota, U.S.
Date of death 30 July, 2022
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Nationality United States

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1928

John C. Rensenbrink (August 30, 1928 – July 30, 2022) was an American political scientist, philosopher, journalist, conservationist, and political activist.

Rensenbrink was born in 1928 in rural Pease, Minnesota, one of seven children of Dutch-American farming parents.

His mother, Effie (Aafje Kooiman), was born in the Netherlands; his father, John Rensenbrink, was the eldest son of Dutch immigrants.

1943

Rensenbrink and his brother Henry operated the dairy farm upon their father's death in 1943.

Unable to attend high school, Rensenbrink took a correspondence course conducted by the American School in Chicago.

1946

He left the farm in 1946 to attend Calvin College, an evangelical college in Grand Rapids, Michigan; his mother and siblings moved to that city the following year.

Rensenbrink studied history, English and philosophy at Calvin and was editor of the college newspaper during his junior and senior years.

1950

He graduated with a BA in 1950.

1951

He then enrolled at the University of Michigan wher he focused primarily on political philosophy, and received a master's degree in political science in 1951.

This was followed by a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the University of Amsterdam from 1951 to 1952.

Shortly after, at the University of Michigan in 1951–52, he joined the Young Republicans, but found himself disgusted with the politics of Joseph McCarthy.

1956

Thereafter, he studied at the University of Chicago, concentrating on political philosophy, American politics, and constitutional law, and completed his Ph.D. in political science from that university in 1956.

His Ph.D. thesis was entitled "Technology and Utopia: the Structure of Freedom".

Rensenbrink began teaching at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1956.

1957

After a year at Coe teaching history and international relations, he taught political philosophy and American government at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, for four years (1957–61).

As he prepared for his first class at Williams in the summer of 1957, Rensenbrink met Carla Washburne in her father's college bookstore in Williamstown.

Carla was a rising Junior at Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1959

They married in June 1959, shortly after her graduation.

1961

They moved to Maine in 1961.

1962

Rensenbrink taught political philosophy and history at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, for one year before taking a job in 1962 for three years as education advisor to the governments of Kenya and Tanzania, sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development.

1965

He and Carla and their daughters Kathryn and Margaret, (born in Dar es Salaam), aged three and one respectively, returned to Bowdoin College in 1965.

1968

Rensenbrink was promoted to the tenured position of associate professor in 1968 and to full professor in 1974.

The Rensenbrinks' third child, Elizabeth, was born in January 1968.

1983

Rensenbrink spent the first six months of 1983 in Poland, accompanied by his wife and three daughters, as a research professor at the Marie Sklodowska University in Lublin, sponsored jointly by that university and Lock Haven State University in Pennsylvania.

This was during the suppression of the Solidarity movement.

Eluding the watchful eye of the Communist regime's secret police, he researched and studied the sources and shape of social change as represented by Solidarity.

1984

He initiated many organizations, the most prominent of which are the Maine Green Party (1984); the Green Party of the United States (1984–87) for both of which he was a principal founder; and the Cathance River Education Alliance (2000), a hands-on ecological education project for local schools, schoolchildren and high school students in mid-coast Maine.

1988

He wrote his first book, based on that experience, in 1988, published by the University of Louisiana Press, "Poland Challenges a Divided World."

1989

In it he accurately predicted the non-violent overthrow of the Communist regime and the victory of the Solidarity movement, events which surprised the world in 1989 and led rapidly thereafter to the demolition of the Berlin Wall and the fall of the Communist regime in Russia.

Following semi-retirement in 1989, Rensenbrink continued teaching at Bowdoin for several years, creating an interdisciplinary seminar for majors in Black, Women's, and Environmental Studies.

1990

Starting in the 1990s, Rensenbrink participated in the International Society for Universal Dialogue (ISUD), founded by Janusz Kuczynski, head of the philosophy department at the University of Warsaw.

2005

He presented several papers at their world Congresses, held every two years, and served as its secretary and vice president before being elected president at the Helsinki Congress in 2005.

2007

Serving as president for two years, he organized the 7th Congress of ISUD at Hiroshima in Japan in 2007.

His presidential address was on cross-cultural dialogue as a major factor in the search for peace.

2016

Rensenbrink delivered one of three keynote addresses to the 11th Congress of ISUD in Warsaw on July 11, 2016.

It was titled, "Co-Evolution—Basis for Inter-Active Dialogue."

Rensenbrink's first foray into politics was a letter-to-the-editor at the age of 14 praising Minnesota's political leader Harold Stassen.

The letter appeared in the Minneapolis Star Journal.

It was the first of many letters to the editor in that newspaper during the next several years.

While in college Rensenbrink participated in a popular campaign to unseat the mayor of Grand Rapids.