George P. Putnam
| George P. Putnam | |
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George P. Putnam and Amelia Earhart c.1935
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| Born |
George Palmer Putnam September 7, 1887 Rye, New York |
| Died | January 4, 1950 (aged 62) Trona, California, USA |
| Cause of death | Kidney Failure |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University, University of California |
| Occupation | Publisher Author Promoter |
| Spouse(s) | Dorothy Binney (divorced) Amelia Earhart (widower) Jean-Marie Cosigny James (divorced) Margaret Havilland (widow) |
| Children | David Binney Putnam George Palmer Putnam, Jr. (with Dorothy Binney Putnam) |
| Parent(s) |
John Bishop Putnam Francis Faulkner |
George Palmer Putnam (September 7, 1887 – January 4, 1950) was an American publisher, author and explorer. Known for his marriage to (and being the widower of) Amelia Earhart, he had also achieved fame as one of the most successful promoters in the United States during the 1930s.
Born in Rye, New York, he was the son of John Bishop Putnam and the grandson of his namesake, George Palmer Putnam, and the founder of the prominent publishing firm that became G. P. Putnam's Sons. He studied at Harvard University and the University of California.
In 1911, Putnam married Dorothy Binney (1888–1982), the daughter of Edwin Binney, inventor and co-owner, with cousin C. Harold Smith, of Binney & Smith Inc., the company that made Crayola crayons. They had two sons, David Binney Putnam (1913–1992) and George Palmer Putnam, Jr.(1921-2013), and for a time lived in Bend, Oregon, where Putnam was the publisher and editor of the local newspaper, the Bend Bulletin. He was mayor of Bend from 1912 to 1913. Putnam left Bend in 1915 to become the private secretary to Oregon governor James Withycombe.
Within a few years, George and Dorothy moved to the East Coast, where Putnam entered the family publishing business in New York City.
During World War I, George Putnam served with the United States Army field artillery. In 1926, under the sponsorship of the American Museum of Natural History, he led an expedition to the Arctic, up the west coast of Greenland. The following year he headed another expedition for the American Geographical Society to collect wildlife specimens on Baffin Island.
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