biography
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| (1865–1946)
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| Forester, conservationist, and public official, born in Simsbury, Connecticut, USA. The son of a well-to-do merchant, he was raised in a cosmopolitan atmosphere and studied forestry in France after graduating from Yale (1889). In 1896, as a member of the National Forest Commission, he helped prepare a conservation plan for government woodlands. Two years later he became chief of the US Agriculture Department's Division of Forestry, but was dismissed (1910) in a dispute with his superior, a foe of conservation. This break with President William Taft's administration was among the chief causes for Pinchot's old friend Theodore Roosevelt's leaving the Republican Party, and in 1912 Pinchot helped form the Progressive Party that nominated Roosevelt for president. A non-resident member of the faculty at Yale's School of Forestry (1903–36), founded with a grant from his father, he was free to enter politics and served two terms as a reform governor of Pennsylvania (Republican, 1922–6, 1931–5). His autobiography, Breaking New Ground, appeared the year after his death. |
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