Hiram Bingham III
| Hiram Bingham III | |
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United States Senator from Connecticut |
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In office December 17, 1924 – March 4, 1933 |
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| Preceded by | Frank Bosworth Brandegee |
| Succeeded by | Augustine Lonergan |
| 69th Governor of Connecticut | |
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In office January 7 – January 8, 1925 |
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| Lieutenant | John H. Trumbull |
| Preceded by | Charles A. Templeton |
| Succeeded by | John H. Trumbull |
| 58th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut | |
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In office 1923–1925 |
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| Governor | Charles A. Templeton |
| Preceded by | Charles A. Templeton |
| Succeeded by | John H. Trumbull |
| Personal details | |
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November 19, 1875 Honolulu, Hawaii |
| Died | June 6, 1956 (aged 80) Washington, D.C. |
| Nationality | American U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) |
1) Alfreda Mitchell (div.) |
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Jonathan Brewster Bingham Hiram Bingham IV Charles Tiffany Bingham Brewster Bingham Mitchell Bingham Woodbridge Bingham Alfred Mitchell Bingham |
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Yale University University of California-Berkeley Harvard University |
| Religion | Protestant Christian |
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United States National Guard United States Army Signal Corps Aviation Section United States Army Air Service |
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Captain Lieutenant Colonel |
1) Alfreda Mitchell (div.)
Hiram Bingham III (November 19, 1875 – June 6, 1956) was an American academic, explorer and politician. He made public the existence of the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu in 1911 with the guidance of local indigenous farmers. Later, Bingham served as a member of the United States Senate for the state of Connecticut.
Bingham was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, the son of Clara Brewster and Hiram Bingham II (1831–1908), an early Protestant missionary to the Kingdom of Hawai'i, the grandson of Hiram Bingham I (1789–1869), another missionary. He attended O'ahu College, now known as Punahou School in Hawai'i from 1882 to 1892. He went to the United States in his teens in order to complete his education, entering Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, from which he graduated in 1894. He earned a B.A. degree from Yale University in 1898, a degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1900, where he took one of the first courses on Latin American history offered in the United States, and Ph. D. from Harvard University in 1905. Since Harvard at the time did not have a specialist in Latin American history, Edward Gaylord Bourne of Yale served as the examiner for Bingham's qualifying exams. While at Yale, Bingham was a member of Acacia Fraternity. He taught history and politics at Harvard and then served as preceptor under Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University. Princeton "did not much favor Latin American history," so that in 1907, when Yale University sought a replacement for Bourne, who had died an early death, it appointed Bingham as a lecturer in South American history. Bingham has been considered one of the pioneers of teaching and research on Latin American history in the U.S. In 1908, he published an assessment of the field's prospects entitled "The Possibilities of South American History and Politics as a Field for Research," in which he surveyed library and archival resources in the U.S. as well as in South America. From 1924, he was a member of the Acorn Club.
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