# Thomas Cronin
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{{Infobox academic
|birth_name=Thomas Edward Cronin
|birth_date={{Birth date and age|1940|03|18}}
|alma_mater=[Stanford University](/source/Stanford_University)
|discipline=Political Scientist
|sub_discipline=[United States Presidency](/source/United_States_Presidency)
|workplaces={{Plainlist|
* [Colorado College](/source/Colorado_College)
* [Whitman College](/source/Whitman_College)
}}
}}
'''Thomas Edward Cronin''' (born March 18, 1940)[{{cite LCAuth |id=n80034429}}] is a political scientist. He was president of [Whitman College](/source/Whitman_College) from 1993 to 2005.[{{Cite web|url=https://www.coloradocollege.edu/academics/dept/politicalscience/people/profile.html?person=cronin_tom|title=Tom Cronin|last=|first=|date=|website=Colorado College|language=en|access-date=2018-04-18}}] He was the McHugh Professor of American Institutions and Leadership at [Colorado College](/source/Colorado_College).[{{cite web|url=http://www.coloradocollege.edu/academics/dept/politicalscience/people/profile.dot?person=cronin_thomas_e|title=Tom Cronin at Colorado College}}] Cronin's field of study is the 'expanding power of the American presidency in the 20th century'. He has also written extensively on American elections, political novels and movies.
Cronin received his [Ph.D.](/source/doctor_of_philosophy) in political science from [Stanford University](/source/Stanford_University).He served on the White House staff in 1966 and early 1967 as a White House Fellow. From 1969 to 1972, Cronin was a research associate at the [Brookings Institution](/source/Brookings_Institution). In 1977, he was elected to the [Common Cause](/source/Common_Cause) National Governing Board. He later served on a dozen boards including, Cascade Natural Gas Corp., Monterey Institute of International Studies, Institute of American Studies and the Executive Council of the APSA. He served also as
President of the Western Political Science Association and the APSA's Presidency Research Group.
He won several awards for outstanding teaching, advising and research. He has been awarded three honorary Ph.D. degrees by Marietta College, Franklin College and Whitman College.
==Academic career==
Cronin held an [assistant professor](/source/list_of_academic_ranks)ship at the [University of North Carolina](/source/University_of_North_Carolina_at_Chapel_Hill) from 1967 to 1970. From 1979 to 1993, he held an [endowed](/source/Financial_endowment) chair at [Colorado College](/source/Colorado_College). He was a member of the [faculty](/source/faculty_(academic_staff)) and in 1991, was the acting president of the college. He took a [visiting professor](/source/visiting_scholar)ship at [Princeton University](/source/Princeton_University) in 1985 and 1986. From 1993 to 2005 Cronin served as President of Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington.
In 2005, Cronin returned to Colorado College to teach and to write.