| Name |
Harry Frank Guggenheim |
| Geboren |
23 Aug 1890 |
West End, New Jersey, United States (USA)  |
| Geschlecht |
männlich |
| Occupation/Beruf |
New York City, New York, United States (USA) |
| Mitbegründer der "New York Racing Association" |
| Residence |
von 1917 |
New York City, New York, United States (USA) |
| Occupation/Beruf |
von 1924 |
New York City, New York, United States (USA) |
| Direktor, später Präsident der "Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation" |
| Occupation/Beruf |
von 1925 |
| President des "Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics" |
| Occupation/Beruf |
von 1929 bis 1938 |
| National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics |
| Occupation/Beruf |
von 1929 bis 1933 |
Havanna, Havanna, Cuba |
| US Botschafter |
| Occupation/Beruf |
1940 bis 1967 |
| Präsident der Newsday Company |
| Occupation/Beruf |
von 1963 bis 1967 |
| Chefredakteur und Herausgeber von Newsday |
| _UID |
9433104BC27E453D8B2C1AA7C99D27563F4F |
| Biography |
Harry Frank Guggenheim was born August 23, 1890 in West End, New Jersey to Florence Shloss and Daniel Guggenheim. He graduated in 1907 from the Columbia Grammar School in Manhattan, and then he attended the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University. He later left Yale and served a three-year apprenticeship at the American Smelting and Refining Company in Mexico, the company owned by the Guggenheim family. He resumed his education in 1910 at England's Pembroke College at the Cambridge University. He earned his B.A. in 1913 and an M.A. from Cambridge both in 1913.
In 1917 he bought a Curtiss flying boat and moved to Manhasset, New York. In September 1917 he joined the United States Navy Reserve and served overseas in France, England and Italy during World War I.
In 1924, his parents established the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation and he was made a director and later president. He sponsored Robert H. Goddard.
He provided funds for the establishment of the first Guggenheim School of Aeronautics at New York University in 1925. He became president of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics a year later. This fund, totaling $3 million, included an equipment loan for operating the first regularly scheduled commercial airline in the United States. It also provided for the establishment of the first weather reporting exclusively for passenger airplanes.
He was the United States ambassador to Cuba from 1929 until his resignation in 1933.
In 1929, President Herbert Hoover appointed Guggenheim to serve on the National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics, a position that he held until 1938. In 1948, as president of the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation, he continued to support United States aviation progress when he helped organize the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Jet Propulsion Center at the California Institute of Technology and the Guggenheim Laboratories for Aerospace Propulsion Sciences at Princeton University.
Guggenheim, with his third wife, Alicia Patterson, established Newsday in 1940. Guggenheim was President of the company, while his wife was editor and publisher until her death in 1963, then he assumed those duties until 1967. Under Guggenheim's guidance, the circulation of Newsday reached 450,000 and received the Pulitzer Prize in 1954.
In 1967, he turned over the publisher position to Bill Moyers and continued as president and editor-in-chief. But Guggenheim was disappointed by the liberal drift of the newspaper under Moyers, criticizing the "left-wing" coverage of Vietnam War protests. The two split over the 1968 presidential election, with Guggenheim signing an editorial supporting Richard Nixon, when Moyers supported Hubert Humphrey. Guggenheim sold his majority share to the then-conservative Times-Mirror Company over the attempt of newspaper employees to block the sale, even though Moyers offered $10 million more than the Times-Mirror purchase price; Moyers resigned a few days later. Guggenheim, who died a year later, disinherited Moyers from his will.
Harry Guggenheim was also a participant in the founding of the New York Racing Association. From 1929 he was a major Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder. His Cain Hoy Stable raced in the United States and was the owner of numerous successful horses including the 1953 Kentucky Derby winner, Dark Star and Eclipse Award winner Bald Eagle. Also he was the breeder and owner (until Harry's death) of Ack Ack who is in the Thoroughbred Hall of Fame and was in 1971 Horse of the Year.
Harry Frank Guggenheim died of cancer on January 22, 1971 at Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He was buried in the Salem Fields Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. |
| Gestorben |
22 Jan 1971 |
New York City, New York, United States (USA) |
| Begraben |
Salem Fields Cemetery, Jamaica Avenue 775, Brooklyn, New York, United States (USA) |
| Notizen |
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| Personen-Kennung |
I23061 |
Hohenemser Genealogie | Hohenemser Recherche |
| Zuletzt bearbeitet am |
28 Sep 2015 |
| Vater |
Daniel Guggenheim, geb. 9 Jul 1856, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States (USA) , gest. 28 Sep 1930, Port Washington, New York, United States (USA) (Alter 74 Jahre) |
| Mutter |
Florence Shloss, geb. 3 Sep 1863, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States (USA) , gest. 13 Mai 1944, New York City, New York, United States (USA) (Alter 80 Jahre) |
| Verheiratet |
22 Jul 1884 |
| Familien-Kennung |
F1005 |
Familienblatt |
1890 - 1971 (80 Jahre)
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