Arthur Hays Sulzberger
| Arthur Hays Sulzberger | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 12, 1891 |
| Died | December 11, 1968 (aged 77) |
| Education | B.A. Columbia College |
| Known for | Publisher of The New York Times |
| Spouse(s) | Iphigene Bertha Ochs |
| Children | Miriam Sulzberger Dryfoos Ruth Sulzberger Golden Judith Sulzberger Cohen Arthur Ochs Sulzberger |
| Parent(s) | Rachel Peixotto Hays Cyrus Lindauer Sulzberger |
| Family |
Adolph Ochs (father-in-law) Orvil E. Dryfoos (son-in-law) Arthur Golden (grandson) Ben Dolnick (great-grandson) Cyrus Leo Sulzberger II (nephew) |
Arthur Hays Sulzberger (September 12, 1891 – December 11, 1968) was the publisher of The New York Times from 1935 to 1961. During that time, daily circulation rose from 465,000 to 713,000 and Sunday circulation from 745,000 to 1.4 million; the staff more than doubled, reaching 5,200; advertising linage grew from 19 million to 62 million column inches per year; and gross income increased almost sevenfold, reaching 117 million dollars.
Sulzberger was the son of Cyrus Lindauer Sulzberger, a cotton-goods merchant, and Rachel Peixotto Hays, from old and noteworthy Jewish families, Ashkenazi and Sephardic, respectively. His great-great-grandfather, Benjamin Seixas, brother of the famous rabbi and American revolutionary Gershom Mendes Seixas of Congregation Shearith Israel, was one of the founders of the . His great-grandfather, Dr. D.L.M. Peixotto, was a prominent physician, director of Columbia University's Medical College and a member of the Philolexian Society.
Sulzberger graduated from the Horace Mann School in 1909 and graduated from Columbia College in 1913, and married Iphigene Bertha Ochs in 1917. In 1918 he began working at the Times, and became publisher when his father-in-law, Adolph Ochs, the previous Times publisher, died in 1935. In 1929, he founded Columbia's original Jewish Advisory Board and served on the board of what became Columbia-Barnard Hillel for many years. He served as a University trustee from 1944 to 1959 and is honored with a floor at the journalism school. He also served as a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1939 to 1957. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1950. In 1954, Sulzberger received The Hundred Year Association of New York's Gold Medal Award "in recognition of outstanding contributions to the City of New York."
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