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Gardiner Greene Hubbard

1822 - 1897

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Gardiner Greene Hubbard (August 25, 1822 – December 11, 1897) was an American lawyer, financier, and community leader. He was a founder and first president of the National Geographic Society; a founder and the first president of the Bell Telephone Company which later evolved into AT&T, at times the world's largest telephone company; a founder of the journal Science; and an advocate of oral speech education for the deaf. One of his daughters, Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, married Alexander Graham Bell. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gardiner Greene Hubbard is the 546th most popular businessperson (up from 578th in 2019), the 7,834th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,522nd in 2019) and the 182nd most popular American Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Gardiner Greene Hubbard ranks 546 out of 847Before him are Eike Batista, Richard Hilton, Hermann Josef Abs, Arianna Huffington, Claire Williams, and Andrew Planche. After him are Earl Tupper, Bob Lazar, Jay Gould, Boris Hagelin, Salt Bae, and Masaji Kiyokawa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1822, Gardiner Greene Hubbard ranks 76Before him are Peter Michal Bohúň, Thrasyvoulos Zaimis, Apollonie Sabatier, Hannibal Goodwin, Menyhért Lónyay, and Henry James Sumner Maine. After him are István Bittó, Lev Mei, Jorge Córdova, Jan Kappeyne van de Coppello, Frances Power Cobbe, and Edward Everett Hale. Among people deceased in 1897, Gardiner Greene Hubbard ranks 73Before him are Mutsu Munemitsu, Léon Gautier, Adam Asnyk, Oscar Dickson, Jan Heemskerk, and Francesco Brioschi. After him are Edward Newton, Juan Idiarte Borda, Charles Blondin, Isaac Pitman, Berthold Englisch, and Margaret Oliphant.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gardiner Greene Hubbard ranks 7,836 out of 20,380Before him are Gummo Marx (1893), Robert Armstrong (1890), Lori Singer (1957), Ollie Johnston (1912), Vanessa Marcil (1968), and Darleane C. Hoffman (1926). After him are Larry Graham (1946), John Frederick Kensett (1816), Katherine Sophie Dreier (1877), Verna Bloom (1938), Earl Tupper (1907), and Bob Lazar (1959).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Gardiner Greene Hubbard ranks 182Before him are Robert Durst (1943), Muhtar Kent (1952), Mario Segale (1934), Gene Haas (1952), Gilbert Kaplan (1941), and Richard Hilton (1955). After him are Earl Tupper (1907), Bob Lazar (1959), Jay Gould (1836), Jamie Dimon (1956), James Smith McDonnell (1899), and Milton S. Hershey (1857).