American conservationist (1890 ? 1987)
Albright enjoys a "bear dinner",
Yellowstone National Park
, 1922
Horace Marden Albright
(January 6, 1890 ? March 28, 1987) was an American
conservationist
and the second
director of the National Park Service
.
Early life and education
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Horace Albright was born in 1890 in
Bishop, California
, the son of George Albright, a
miner
. He graduated from the
University of California, Berkeley
in 1912, and earned a law degree from
Georgetown University
. Albright married his college classmate Grace Noble and they had two children.
Career and life
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After graduation, he worked for the
Department of the Interior
in
Washington, D.C.
Albright became a legal assistant to
Stephen Mather
when Mather became Assistant Secretary in charge of National Parks, and later assisted Mather when the
National Park Service
(NPS) was established in 1916. As legal assistant, he helped acquire land for several new national parks in the east. When Mather became ill, Albright managed the NPS as acting director. He later served as superintendent of
Yellowstone National Park
and, for a short time,
Yosemite National Park
. On October 18, 1922, he was elected Associate Member of the
Boone and Crockett Club
, a wildlife conservation organization founded by
Theodore Roosevelt
and
George Bird Grinnell
, in 1887.
Horace M. Albright, Superintendent of Yellowstone, 1922
On January 12, 1929, Albright succeeded Mather as the second director of the NPS and held the post until August 9, 1933. He next worked for the
U.S. Potash Corporation
and
U.S. Borax and Chemical Corporation
, serving variously as director, vice president, and general manager. During this time, the Albrights lived in
New Rochelle, New York
. In 1937, Albright's portrait was painted by artist
Herbert A. Collins
.
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Albright died in
Van Nuys, California
, in 1987.
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Legacy
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In 1969, Albright received the
National Audubon Society
's highest honor, the Audubon Medal.
[5]
The nation's highest civilian award, the
Presidential Medal of Freedom
, was awarded to Albright by President
Jimmy Carter
on the 64th anniversary of the National Park Service. President Carter announced the award in August 1980, and the medal was presented on December 8 by Assistant Secretary of the Interior Robert L. Herbst, in a ceremony at Van Nuys, California.
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Albright Grove, a grove of old-growth hemlocks and tulip poplars located in the
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
, was named in Albright's honor.
[7]
The Albright Training Center at
Grand Canyon National Park
, the Albright Visitor Center at
Yellowstone National Park
, and
Albright Peak
in
Grand Teton National Park
also bear his name.
References
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- ^
"Berkeley Citation ? Past Recipients | Berkeley Awards"
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Biography of Herbert Alexander Collins, by Alfred W. Collins, February 1975, 4 pages typed, in the possession of Collins' great-great grand-daughter, D. Dahl of Tacoma, WA.
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"Horace Albright Dies. Founded Park Service"
.
New York Times
. March 29, 1987
. Retrieved
2009-09-30
.
Horace Marden Albright, a conservationist who was a co-founder and second director of the National Park Service, died of heart failure early yesterday at a convalescent home in Los Angeles. He was 97 years old.
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"National Park Service Co-founder Dies,"
Yosemite
49(1):4 (Spring 1987).
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"Previous Audubon Medal Awardees"
.
Audubon
. 2015-01-09
. Retrieved
2020-07-12
.
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"About Horace M. Albright"
.
UC Berkeley Rausser College of Natural Resources
. Retrieved
2020-12-02
.
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"Albright Grove Trail - Maddron Bald Loop Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park"
. Mysmokymountainvacation.com
. Retrieved
2013-06-19
.
Further reading
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- Becher, Anne, and Joseph Richey,
American Environmental Leaders: From Colonial Times to the Present
(2 vol, 2nd ed. 2008)
vol 1 online
p. 15.
- Swain, Donald C.
"Harold Ickes, Horace Albright, and the Hundred Days: A Study in Conservation Administration."
Pacific Historical Review
34.4 (1965): 455?465.
online
- Swain, Donald C.
"The Passage of the National Park Service Act of 1916."
Wisconsin Magazine of History
(1966): 4?17.
online
- Swain, Donald C.
Wilderness defender; Horace M. Albright and conservation
(U of Chicago Press, 1970)
online
- Swain, Donald C.
"The National Park Service and the New Deal, 1933-1940."
Pacific Historical Review
41.3 (1972): 312?332.
online
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