Sumner Chilton Powell

{{short description|American historian}}

Sumner Chilton Powell (October 2, 1924 in Northampton, Massachusetts – July 8, 1993 in Colora, Maryland){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=63nvmt4HqTEC&q=sumner+chilton+powell+born&pg=PA303|title=Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners|first1=Elizabeth A.|last1=Brennan|first2=Elizabeth C.|last2=Clarage|date=September 2, 1999|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=9781573561112|via=Google Books}}Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936-2007. was an American historian and history teacher at the Choate School, a college-prep boarding school in Wallingford, Connecticut.

He attended The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut, earned a bachelor's degree from Amherst College in 1946, and from 1947 to 1952 was an active US Naval Officer attaining the rank of Lieutenant (jg), but remained a Naval Reserve Officer until 1961.United States Military Registers, 1902–1985. Salem, Oregon: Oregon State Library. He earned a doctorate in history from Harvard University in 1956.

In 1957 he published From Mythical to Medieval Man. He won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for History for Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town (1963),[http://pulitzer.org/bycat/History "History"]. In the mid-1960 he taught at Iona College, New Rochelle, New York. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-25. based on records on Sudbury, Massachusetts from 1638–1660, tracing every settler back to England.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/05/06/archives/pulitzer-winner-is-seeking-a-job-powell-hopes-history-prize-will.html|title=PULITZER WINNER IS SEEKING A JOB; Powell Hopes History Prize Will Lead to Editor's Post|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 6, 1964}}