Cornelius (Neil) Philip Cotter (March 18, 1924 – July 12, 1999) was an American professor of political science.
[2][3][4] While he attended school, he supported himself and his family as the business manager of a New Jersey summer theater company.
The research from this grant was written up in many articles and in a book, Party Organizations in American Politics (1984).
President Dwight D. Eisenhower and other party leaders were concerned that the GOP would be defeated at the polls in 1958 unless they could articulate their policy positions.
[5][7] The committee, which consisted of 44 Republicans from various backgrounds, was chaired by Charles H. Percy, president of Bell and Howell.
In 1960, he was also an assistant to Meade Alcorn, then the chairman of the Republican National Committee, and his successor, Senator Thruston Ballard Morton.
He continued to work with the Civil Rights Commission after moving to Wisconsin, serving on the state advisory committee.