James Gordon Bennett
James Gordon Bennett
James Gordon Bennett Jr.was publisher of the New York Herald, founded by his father, James Gordon Bennett Sr., who emigrated from Scotland. He was generally known as Gordon Bennett to distinguish him from his father. Among his many sports-related accomplishments he organized both the first polo match and the first tennis match in the United States, and he personally won the first trans-oceanic yacht race. He sponsored explorers including Henry Morton Stanley's trip to Africa to find David Livingstone, and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEditor
Date of Birth10 May 1841
CountryUnited States of America
James Gordon Bennett quotes about
I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one.