Gardiner Greene Hubbard

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Gardiner Greene Hubbard was a 19th-century American lawyer, financier, and philanthropist best known as the first president of the National Geographic Society and an early backer and father-in-law of Alexander Graham Bell.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf businessperson
financier
human
lawyer
philanthropist
birthDate 1822-08-25
birthPlace Boston, Massachusetts, United States
boardMemberOf Bell Telephone Company
National Geographic Society
child Mabel Gardiner Hubbard
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
deathDate 1897-12-11
deathPlace Washington, D.C., United States
educatedAt Harvard College
Harvard Law School
Phillips Academy Andover
era 19th century
familyName Hubbard
fieldOfWork business
law
telecommunications
founded Bell Telephone Company
National Geographic Society
givenName Gardiner
hasRole early backer of Alexander Graham Bell
father-in-law of Alexander Graham Bell
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences
National Geographic Society
name Gardiner Greene Hubbard
notableFor being an early financial supporter of the telephone
being the first president of the National Geographic Society
notableWork early promotion of the telephone
founding leadership of the National Geographic Society
occupation business executive
company director
financier
lawyer
philanthropist
politicalActivity advocated postal telegraph reform in the United States
positionHeld first president of the National Geographic Society
president of the Bell Telephone Company
president of the National Bell Telephone Company
trustee of the Clarke School for the Deaf
relative Alexander Graham Bell
residence Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Washington, D.C., United States
sexOrGender male
spouse Gertrude Mercer McCurdy


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