Harry Rathbun

Harry John Rathbun was a professor of business law at Stanford University who had a profound influence on a generation of students, with former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor crediting him with being the key intellectual and spiritual influence in her life.^[1]

With his wife, Emilia,^[2] he founded the Creative Initiative Foundation (now closed) which morphed during the 1980s into the Beyond War Foundation (also now closed).

Rathbun was born June 14, 1894,^[3] in Mitchell, South Dakota, United States, and died September 28, 1987, in Palo Alto, California.^[4]