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Thomas J. Anton, professor emeritus of political science and former dean of the faculty at Brown University, died June 6, 2006. He was 71.

Anton graduated magna cum laude from Clark University in 1956, and in 1959 and 1961 earned a master’s and doctorate in politics from Princeton. He then began a 40-year career as a political science professor at the universities of Illinois, Stockholm, and Michigan, before joining the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions at Brown. He was center director from 1984 to 2001, as well as Brown’s dean of faculty from 1990 to 1991.

The author of more than 50 articles and a dozen papers, Anton won the American Political Science Association award for best U.S. national policy publication for his fifth book, published in 1994. Practicing what he taught and wrote about, Anton was active in the Providence, R.I., community as chairman of the housing authority and a member of the mayor’s task force.

He is survived by his wife, Barbara; three children; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

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