Peverill Squire

Peverill Squire holds the Hicks and Martha Griffiths Chair in American Political Institutions at the Truman School of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Missouri at Columbia. Professor Squire specializes in American politics and legislative studies and is the author of 5 books, most recently The Right of Instruction and Representation in American Legislatures, 1778 to 1900 and The Rise of the Representative: Lawmakers of Constituents in Colonial America .

Peverill Squire holds the Hicks and Martha Griffiths Chair in American Political Institutions at the Truman School of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Missouri at Columbia. Professor Squire specializes in American politics and legislative studies and is the author of 5 books, most recently The Right of Instruction and Representation in American Legislatures, 1778 to 1900 and The Rise of the Representative: Lawmakers of Constituents in Colonial America . See less