LOS ANGELES (AP) – A professor at Southern California’s Occidental College, who was credited by Barack Obama with sparking the future president’s interest in politics, has died at age 69.
Occidental spokesman Jim Tranquada says Roger Boesche died at home Tuesday.
He had retired from Occidental just last Sunday after 40 years on the faculty.
Boesche had suffered for years from rheumatoid arthritis.
He was a young faculty member in the early 1980s when he gave Obama a B in political theory.