- Horace M. Albright
Horace Marden Albright (
January 6 ,1890 –March 28 ,1987 ) was an Americanconservationist .Biography
Horace Albright was born 1890 in
Bishop, California , the son of George Albright aminer . He graduated fromUniversity of California, Berkeley in 1912 , and earned a law degree fromGeorgetown University .Albright married his college classmate Grace Noble and they had two children.
After graduation he worked for the
Department of Interior inWashington, D.C. Albright became a legal assistant toStephen Mather when Mather became Assistant Secretary in charge of National Parks, and later assisted Mather when theNational Park Service (NPS) was established in 1917. As legal assistant he helped acquire land for several new national parks in the east. When Mather became ill, and managed the NPS as acting director. Albright was superintendent ofYellowstone National Park and, for a short time,Yosemite National Park .On
January 12 ,1929 Albright succeeded Mather as the second director of the NPS and held the post untilAugust 9 ,1933 .In 1933 Albright resigned to work for the
U. S. Potash Corporation andU. S. Borax and Chemical Corporation , serving variously as director, Vice President, and General Manager. During this time they lived inNew Rochelle, New York .In 1937, his portrait was painted by artist
Herbert A. Collins .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]Albright died in
Van Nuys, California in 1987. ["National Park Service Co-founder Dies," "Yosemite" 49(1):4 (Spring 1987)]References
ee Also
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National Park Service
*Stephen Mather - 1st Director
*Arno B. Cammerer - 3rd DirectorExternal links
* [http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/sontag/albright.htm National Park Service Biography]
* [http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/albright3/ "Oh, Ranger!" by Horace M. Albright and Frank J. Taylor (1928, 1929, 1934, 1972)] . Whimsical look at managing the National parks
* [http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/albright2/ "Creating the National Park Service: The Missing Years" by Horace M. Albright and Marian Albright Schenck (Univ. of OK Press, 1999)] Memoirs about creating the NPS written with the assistance of Albright's daughter
*Albright, Horace M. as told to Robert Cahn; "The Birth of the National Park Service; The Founding Years, 1913-33"; Howe Brothers, Salt Lake City, Utah; 1985.
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