Gifford Pinchot
| Gifford Pinchot | |
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Gifford Pinchot portrait by Pirie MacDonald, 1909
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| 28th Governor of Pennsylvania | |
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In office January 20, 1931 – January 15, 1935 |
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| Lieutenant | Edward Shannon |
| Preceded by | John Stuchell Fisher |
| Succeeded by | George Earle |
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In office January 20, 1923 – January 18, 1927 |
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| Lieutenant | David Davis |
| Preceded by | William Sproul |
| Succeeded by | John Stuchell Fisher |
| 1st Chief of the United States Forest Service | |
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In office February 1, 1905 – January 7, 1910 |
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| President |
Theodore Roosevelt William Howard Taft |
| Preceded by | Office Created |
| Succeeded by | Henry Graves |
| 4th Chief of the Division of Forestry | |
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In office March 15, 1898 – February 1, 1905 |
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| President |
William McKinley Theodore Roosevelt |
| Preceded by | Bernhard Fernow |
| Succeeded by | Himself |
| Personal details | |
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August 11, 1865 Simsbury, Connecticut |
| Died | October 4, 1946 (aged 81) New York City, New York |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Cornelia Bryce Pinchot |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
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| a.^ Albert F. Potter served as Acting Chief of the Forest Service until Graves was selected for appointment to the position on a permanent basis. b.^ As Chief of the Forest Service. |
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Gifford Pinchot (August 11, 1865 – October 4, 1946) was an American forester and politician. Pinchot served as the first Chief of the United States Forest Service from 1905 until his firing in 1910, and was the 28th Governor of Pennsylvania, serving from 1923 to 1927, and again from 1931 to 1935. He was a member of the Republican Party for most of his life, though he also joined the Progressive Party for a brief period.
Pinchot is known for reforming the management and development of forests in the United States and for advocating the conservation of the nation's reserves by planned use and renewal. He called it "the art of producing from the forest whatever it can yield for the service of man." Pinchot coined the term conservation ethic as applied to natural resources. Pinchot's main contribution was his leadership in promoting scientific forestry and emphasizing the controlled, profitable use of forests and other natural resources so they would be of maximum benefit to mankind. He was the first to demonstrate the practicality and profitability of managing forests for continuous cropping. His leadership put conservation of forests high on America's priority list.
Asked how to say his name, he told The Literary Digest "as though it were spelled pin'cho, with slight emphasis on the first syllable."
Gifford Pinchot was born August 11, 1865, to Episcopalian parents in Simsbury, Connecticut, the son of James W. Pinchot, a successful New York City wallpaper merchant and Mary Eno, daughter of one of New York City's wealthiest real estate developers, Amos Eno. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and in 1889, Yale University, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. He had a brother Amos Pinchot and a sister Antoinette (who married the diplomat Alan Johnstone).
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