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Gifford Pinchot was born in Simsbury, Connecticut, on August 11, 1865. [5] He was named for Hudson River School artist Sanford Robinson Gifford. [6] Pinchot was the oldest child of James W. Pinchot, a successful New York City interior furnishings merchant, and Mary Eno, daughter of one of New York City's wealthiest real estate developers, Amos Eno. [7]
The Conference of Governors was held in the White House May 13–15, 1908 under the sponsorship of President Theodore Roosevelt. Gifford Pinchot, at that time Chief Forester of the U.S., was the primary mover of the conference, and a progressive conservationist, who strongly believed in the scientific and efficient management of natural resources on the federal level.
Roosevelt left the Republican Party and created the Progressive Party. [241] [242] Leadership of the new party included a range of reformers. Jane Addams campaigned vigorously for the party as a breakthrough in social reform. [243] Gifford Pinchot represented environmentalists and anti-trust crusaders
Gifford Pinchot (right) and Theodore Roosevelt shaped the early history of the Forest Service. Starting in 1876, and undergoing a series of name changes, the United States Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture grew to protect and use millions of acres of forest on public land.
Pinchot immediately lobbied Roosevelt to challenge Taft in 1912. Ballinger's chief critic was his own subordinate, head of the United States Forestry Service Gifford Pinchot, who had overseen Roosevelt's conservation efforts from that
Theodore Roosevelt endorses Gifford Pinchot in Pennsylvania, 1914. 1914. Despite the second-place finish of 1912, the Progressive Party began to fade away and the ...
The government implemented this policy in the 1930s, just as another Roosevelt, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was shifting the focus of conservation beyond natural resources like water and forests.
His key adviser and subordinate on environmental matters was Gifford Pinchot, the head of the Bureau of Forestry. Roosevelt increased Pinchot's power over environmental issues by transferring control over national forests from the Department of