He attended the Kent School in Connecticut and received his bachelor of arts from Princeton University in 1943. He served in New Guinea, the Philippines, and Japan with the Thirty-second Infantry Division of the United States Army from 1943 to 1945. In 1946 he returned to Princeton to do graduate study in philosophy. He married Margaret Warfield Fox on 28 June 1949; they had four children: Anne Warfield, Robert Lee, Alexander Emory, and Elizabeth Fox. Rawls earned his Ph.D. in 1950 with the dissertation "A Study in the Grounds of Ethical Knowledge: Considered with Reference to Judgments on the Moral Worth of Character." That year he took a position as an instructor in philosophy at Cornell University. He was a Fulbright fellow at Christchurch College of the University of Oxford in 1952-1953 and was promoted to assistant professor at Cornell in 1953 and to associate professor in 1956.
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