Editing Samuel P. Huntington (section)

==Early life and education==
Huntington was born on April 18, 1927, in New York City, the son of Richard Thomas Huntington, a publisher of hotel trade journals, and Dorothy Sanborn (née Phillips), a short-story writer.<ref name="Bloomberg_Hart_20071227">{{Cite news|first=Dan |last=Hart|publisher=[[Bloomberg News]] |title=Samuel Huntington, Harvard Political Scientist, Dies |date=December 27, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mindef.gov.sg/imindef/publications/pointer/journals/2009/v35n1/featured_author.html |title=POINTER - Journals - 2009 - Volume 35 Number 1 - Featured Author: Samuel P Huntington |publisher=Mindef.gov.sg |access-date=2012-08-17}}</ref> His grandfather was publisher [[John Sanborn Phillips]]. He graduated with distinction from [[Yale University]] at age 18. He served in the [[U.S. Army]] from April 1946 to May 1947 and was stationed at [[Fort Eustis]], Virginia.<ref>"Index Record for Samuel Huntington (1927) US, Veterans Affairs Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem Death File, 1850-2010", ''[[Fold3]] by Ancestry.com website''. Retrieved November 30, 2023. Enlistment Date is listed as "17 Apr 1946" and Release Date is listed as "11 May 1947".</ref> He then earned his [[master's degree]] from the [[University of Chicago]], and completed his [[PhD]] at [[Harvard University]], where he began teaching at age 23.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=December 27, 2008|url=http://www.gov.harvard.edu/faculty/shuntington/ |title=Samuel Huntington, Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor|publisher=Department of Government, Harvard University |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080430041506/http://www.gov.harvard.edu/faculty/shuntington/ |archive-date = April 30, 2008}}
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