| Sarah Wambaugh | |
| Honorific Suffix: | FAAAS |
| Birth Date: | March 6, 1882 |
| Birth Place: | Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Death Place: | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Education: | Radcliffe College, A.B. (1902), A.M. (1917) |
| Father: | Eugene Wambaugh |
Sarah Wambaugh (March 6, 1882 - November 12, 1955) was an American political scientist.
She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the daughter of legal scholar Eugene Wambaugh. She earned an A.B. in 1902[1] and an A.M. in 1917 from Radcliffe College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she also later taught. She also carried out studies in England; in London and Oxford.
Wambaugh eventually became recognized as the world's leading authority on plebiscites.[2] [3] Wambaugh had joined the membership of the Secretariat of the League of Nations in 1920.[4] She was an advisor to the Peruvian government for the Tacna-Arica Plebiscite (1925 - 26), to the Saar Plebiscite Commission (1934 - 35), to the American observers of the Greek national elections (1945 - 46) and to the U.N. Plebiscite Commission to Jammu and Kashmir (1949). During World War II she was a consultant to the director of the enemy branch of the Foreign Economic Administration.[5] She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1944.[6] She died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on November 12, 1955.