Frank Gannett
Frank Ernest Gannett (September 15, 1876 – December 3, 1957) is the founder of Gannett media corporation.
[edit] Biography
Gannett was born in South Bristol, New York, United States, graduated from Bolivar High School , Bolivar, NY in 1893, and graduated from Cornell University.[1] At the age of 30, he purchased his first newspaper, the Elmira Gazette (now the Star-Gazette). Six years later, in 1912, he purchased the Ithaca Journal. In March 1918, he and his partners moved their headquarters to Rochester, New York where they acquired the Evening Times, the Herald, and the Union and Advertiser and combined them as the Times-Union (the former evening paper of Rochester).[2] In 1923 Gannett bought out his partners and formed his eponymous holding company the Gannett Company, which has grown from its initial 6 newspapers into a nationwide multimedia corporation.
Active in state politics, Gannett took a neutral stand to the New Deal in 1936 before joining the opposition against President Franklin D. Roosevelt's court-packing scheme. He helped the Republicans retake control of Rochester's City Council a year later. In 1939–1940, he ran briefly for the 1940 Republican presidential nomination. He was a founding member of the National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government.
Frank Gannett is buried in historic Mt. Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York.[3]
[edit] Legacy
The libraries at Elmira College,[4] Utica College,[5] and Ithaca College[6] are named for him, in addition to the student health center at Cornell University (Gannett Health Services)[7] and the building that houses the printing and photography programs at Rochester Institute of Technology.[8] The Frank E. Gannett Field House at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania is named after him .[9]
[edit] References
- ^ http://rocwiki.org/Frank_Ernest_Gannett accessed 17 February 2008
- ^ http://www.westirondequoit.org/iroquois/Rochester/Gannett.htm accessed 17 February 2008
- ^ http://www.fomh.org/history.php accessed 17 February 2008
- ^ http://www.elmira.edu/academics/library/about/location Gannett-Tripp Library at Elmira College accessed 17 February 2008
- ^ http://www.utica.edu/academic/library/aboutlib/maps/UC%20Library%20Map.pdf Frank E. Gannett Memorial Library at Utica College accessed 17 February 2008
- ^ http://www.ithaca.edu/tour/gannett.php Gannett Center at Ithaca College accessed 17 February 2008
- ^ http://www.gannett.cornell.edu/ Gannett Health Services at Cornell University accessed 17 February 2008
- ^ http://whatsinaname.rit.edu/buildings/?id=7 RIT: What's In A Name?
- ^ http://www.wilson.edu/wilson/asp/content.asp?id=175 Frank E. Gannett Field House at Wilson College accessed 17 February 2008
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