Gifford Pinchot was chief forester for William Howard Taft when a scandal over Alaska coal got him fired, angered Theodore Roosevelt and sent Woodrow Wilson to the White House.Gifford Pinchot
Gifford Pinchot
Pinchot was appointed as the nation's first chief forester by Roosevelt, but Taft kept him on after taking office in 1909.
Pinchot, like Roosevelt, was a committed conservationist. He was born Aug. 11, 1865 in Simsbury, Conn., into a family that had made a great fortune in lumbering and land speculation. His father, James Pinchot, was a wealthy wallpaper merchant; his mother, Mary Eno Pinchot, was the daughter of Amos Enos, one of New York’s most prominent real estate developers.
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