Amos Pinchot
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Amos Pinchot and his sister, Lady Alan Johnstone, circa 1913
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| Born |
Amos Richards Eno Pinchot December 6, 1873 Paris, France |
| Died | February 18, 1944 (aged 70) The Bronx, New York, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Bronchial pneumonia |
| Resting place | Milford Cemetery |
| Residence | Grey Towers |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
Yale University Columbia University New York Law School |
| Occupation | Lawyer, reformist |
| Spouse(s) |
Gertrude Minturn (m. 1900; div. 1918) Ruth Pickering (m. 1919–44) |
| Children |
Rosamond Pinchot Gifford Pinchot Mary Pinchot Meyer Antoinette "Toni" Pinchot |
| Relatives |
Gifford Pinchot (brother) Antoinette E. Pinchot (sister) |
Amos Richards Eno Pinchot (December 6, 1873 – February 18, 1944) was an American lawyer and reformist. He never held public office but managed to exert considerable influence in reformist circles and did much to keep progressive and Georgist ideas alive in the 1920s.
Pinchot was born in Paris, to American parents, who were Episcopalians. His father was James W. Pinchot, a successful New York City wallpaper merchant and supporter of the conservation movement and his mother was Mary Eno, daughter of one of New York City's wealthiest real estate developers, Amos Eno. His siblings were the conservation leader Gifford Pinchot, and Antoinette E. Pinchot who later married Alan Johnstone.
Pinchot was educated at Yale where he was a member of the secret society Skull and Bones, He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1897. In 1898, Pinchot enrolled at Columbia University to study law. Later that same year, he left school to fight in the Spanish–American War. Pinchot enlisted in the 1st New York Volunteer Cavalry and served in Puerto Rico. After the war ended, he enrolled in New York Law School in 1899 and was admitted to the bar association in New York in 1900.
Shortly after being admitted to the bar, Pinchot was appointed deputy assistant district attorney for New York County. He left the position in 1901.
In 1905, Pinchot served a year's political apprenticeship as a lobbyist for President Theodore Roosevelt and returned to Washington again in 1909 to live and work with his brother Gifford during the Pinchot-Ballinger controversy, which pitted his brother (recently fired as the US Forest Service chief) against President William Howard Taft's Secretary of the Interior. Taft had fired Gifford for insubordination, which inflamed the insurgent wing of the Republican Party allied to Roosevelt.
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