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9 unusual facts about Gifford Pinchot


Charles O. Gill

Remaining in Harland he collaborated with his Yale football teammate Gifford Pinchot in writing The Country Church - The Decline Of Its Influence and The Remedy published by Macmillan Company in 1913.

With Gifford Pinchot he co-authored two influential books on the state of rural churches in the United States.

Entrepreneurship education

This approach is called corporate entrepreneurship or Intrapreneurship, and was made popular by author Gifford Pinchot in his book of the same name.

George Washington Woodruff

His political posts included Finance Clerk in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Attorney General, federal judge for the territory of Hawaii, chief law officer of the US Forest Service under friend and fellow Yale alumni Gifford Pinchot, Acting Secretary of the Interior under President Theodore Roosevelt.

Gifford Pinchot III

Gifford Pinchot is also the grandson of the first Chief of the United States Forest Service and the 28th Governor of Pennsylvania, Gifford Pinchot.

Giffordius

The two known species, found on New Providence, Bahamas, were named after the early conservationist and politician, Gifford Pinchot and his wife, Cornelia, who discovered them.

Juliette Peirce

The Peirces led an active social life there and became friends with relatives of Gifford Pinchot.

Lucy Dorsey Iams

The same year she was appointed as a Trustee of the Western Penitentiary of Pennsylvania by Governor Gifford Pinchot.

Timothy Egan

The book also details some of the political issues focusing on Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot.


Committee on Department Methods

The Commission's members were Charles H. Keep, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and Chairman of the Commission, James R. Garfield, Gifford Pinchot, Frank H. Hitchcock and Lawrence O. Murray.

Conservation movement

The ideas of Sir Brandis, Sir William P.D. Schlich and Carl A. Schenck were also very influential - Gifford Pinchot, the first chief of the USDA Forest Service, relied heavily upon Brandis' advice for introducing professional forest management in the U.S. and on how to structure the Forest Service.

Country life movement

Other members of the commission included agricultural scientist and sociologist Kenyon L. Butterfield, forester Gifford Pinchot, and future U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Henry Cantwell Wallace.


see also

Gifford Pinchot III

Gifford Pinchot III is an American entrepreneur, author and co-founder of the Bainbridge Graduate Institute.