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Osborn, Frederick H.


United States, Business Person    (1889 to 1981)
• Railroad industry executive. Anthropologist. Promoter of eugenics.
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1940 1950 1960 1970 1980
FounderPopCouncil
 
OfficerUNSecretariat
 
MemberKofBE
 
OfficerUSWarDept
 
TrusteePrincetonUniv
 
OfficerPioneerFund
 
OfficerAmerEugSoc
 
MemberCFR
 
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StudentPrincetonUniv
 
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The Population Council   (Founder of, 1952 to 1981) -- Duck | Google | Bing
• Co-founder and President
• 1956 : "People simply are not willing to accept the idea that the genetic base on which their character was formed is inferior and should not be repeated in the next generation." (from "Galton and Mid Century Eugenics" by Frederick Osborn, Galton Lecture 1956, in Eugenics Review, vol. 48, 1, 1956)
U.N. Secretariat   (Officer of, 1947 to 1950) -- Duck | Google | Bing
• U.N. Atomic Energy Commission, Deputy to the U.S. Representative
Knights of the British Empire   (Member of, dates uncertain) -- Duck | Google | Bing
• Honorary Commander, the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
U.S. War Department   (Officer of, 1941 to 1945) -- Duck | Google | Bing
• Brigadier General. Chief of the Morale Branch.
Princeton University   (Trustee of, dates uncertain) -- Duck | Google | Bing
Pioneer Fund   (Officer of, 1937 to 1956) -- Duck | Google | Bing
• 1947 : President
American Eugenics Society   (Officer of, 1928 to 1972) -- Duck | Google | Bing
• Secretary and attorney
• 1940 : Published "Preface to Eugenics" (New York, Harper and Row) -- Duck | Google | Bing
• 1946 : President (1946-52)
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)   (Member of, 1924 to 1971) -- Duck | Google | Bing
Trinity College, Cambridge   (Student of, 1911) -- Duck | Google | Bing
Princeton University   (Student of, 1907 to 1910) -- Duck | Google | Bing