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{{short description|American historian}}
'''Sumner Chilton Powell''' (October 2, 1924 in [[Northampton, Massachusetts]] – July 8, 1993 in [[Colora, Maryland]])<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=63nvmt4HqTEC&q=sumner+chilton+powell+born&pg=PA303|title=Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners|first1=Elizabeth A.|last1=Brennan|first2=Elizabeth C.|last2=Clarage|date=September 2, 1999|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=9781573561112|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936-2007.</ref> was an American historian and history teacher at the [[Choate School]], a college-prep [[boarding school]] in [[Wallingford, Connecticut]].
He attended [[The Taft School]] in [[Watertown, Connecticut]], earned a bachelor's degree from [[Amherst College]] in 1946, and from 1947 to 1952 was an active US Naval Officer attaining the rank of Lieutenant (jg), but remained a Naval Reserve Officer until 1961.<ref>United States Military Registers, 1902–1985. Salem, Oregon: Oregon State Library.</ref> He earned a doctorate in history from [[Harvard University]] in 1956.
In 1957 he published ''From Mythical to Medieval Man''. He won the 1964 [[Pulitzer Prize for History]] for ''[[Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town]]'' (1963),<ref>[http://pulitzer.org/bycat/History "History"]. In the mid-1960 he taught at Iona College, New Rochelle, New York. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-25.</ref> based on records on [[Sudbury, Massachusetts]] from 1638–1660, tracing every settler back to England.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/05/06/archives/pulitzer-winner-is-seeking-a-job-powell-hopes-history-prize-will.html|title=PULITZER WINNER IS SEEKING A JOB; Powell Hopes History Prize Will Lead to Editor's Post|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 6, 1964}}</ref>
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