Ruth S. Morgenthau
Ruth Schachter Morgenthau, was a professor of international politics at Brandeis University and an advisor to President Jimmy Carter on rural development in poor countries.
Biography
She was born in Vienna, Austria, on January 26, 1931, as Ruth Schachter. Her parents, Osias Schachter and Mizia Schachter, owned a textile importing company until they fled from the Nazis in 1940. She graduated from Barnard College in 1952, then attended the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris as a Fulbright scholar. In 1958, she received a doctorate in politics from Oxford.She was a member of the United States Mission to [the United Nations], and in 1988 ran unsuccessfully as a Democratic candidate for Congress in Rhode Island. She was an advocate of
Ruth married to Henry Morgenthau in 1962. They had two sons: Henry Morgenthau and cinematographer Kramer Morgenthau ; and a daughter, Sarah Elinor Morgenthau Wessel.
She died on November 4, 2006, aged 75, in Boston, Massachusetts.