Don Krasher Price (23 January 1910 – 9 July 1995) was an American political scientist who served as the founding dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government from 1958 to 1976.
He studied at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee from 1927 to 1931, and then came to Merton College, Oxford for three years on a Rhodes Scholarship.
[1][2] After serving as a lieutenant in the US Coast Guard during the Second World War, Price joined the Bureau of the Budget in 1946.
[2] Price returned to Oxford in 1985 to spend a year at Balliol College as George Eastman Visiting Professor, during which time he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the university.
[2] A native of Middlesboro, Kentucky, Price died on 9 July 1995 in Wellesley, Massachusetts at the age of 85, as a result of complications from Alzheimer's disease.