Theodore J. Lowi was born on July 9, 1931 in Gadsden, Alabama.

He and his wife, Angele, reared two

children, Anna and Jason. He currently makes his home in Ithaca, New York. Lowi obtained
a Bachelor of Arts from Michigan State University in 1954, and an Master of Arts and Ph.D. from Yale
University in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1955 and 1961, respectively. He is a past president of
the American Political Science Association and the International Political Science Association. He was
voted one of the most influential political scholars of the modern era [1]. Lowi has been a frequent
guest on NPR, PBS, and cable television news-issues talk shows.