Richard Gilder

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For the American poet and editor, see Richard Watson Gilder.

Richard Gilder, co-founder of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, heads the brokerage firm Gilder, Gagnon, Howe & Co. The firm's specialty is trading leveraged stocks and shortselling.[1]

After working at the brokerage firm of A.G. Becker & Co., Gilder founded the firm now known as Gilder, Gagnon, Howe & Co. in 1968.[2] He is Chairman of the Executive Committee at the New-York Historical Society and serves on the Executive Board of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. He is a trustee of the Gilder Lehrman Institute, Morgan Library & Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, the Central Park Conservancy,[3] and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. He is Chairman Emeritus of both, the conservative think-tank, the Manhattan Institute[4] and the conservative political action committee, the Club for Growth.[5] In 2005, Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman received the National Humanities Medal for their work promoting the study of American history.[6] He has now set up a PhD. program at the American Museum of Natural History in his own name, the Richard Gilder Graduate School at AMNH.[7]

Gilder attended Northfield Mount Hermon School before enrolling in Yale College. He graduated from Yale in 1954.[8] He received a Doctor of Humane Letters in 2007 from Yale. He provided $4 million, over half the necessary funding, for the recently completed Richard Gilder Boathouse for Yale rowers.[8][9]

Gilder has four children.[2] His daughter Virginia Gilder (born 1958), also a Yale graduate,[8] was a member of the American women's quadruple sculls team that won the silver medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics.[10] and is a co-owner of the Seattle Storm, a professional women's basketball team in the WNBA.[11]

He married the former model and actress, Lois Chiles, in 2005.[12] Her paternal uncle was the oil tycoon Eddie Chiles.[13]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.gghc.com/AboutUs/what.aspx Gilder Gagnon Howe & Co website - About Us
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Richard Gilder". Q&A - a companion site for the C-SPAN series. June 26, 2005. 
  3. ↑
  4. ↑ "Board of Trustees". Manhattan Institute. 
  5. ↑ "Board of Directors". Club for Growth. 
  6. ↑ "Advisory Board". The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. 
  7. ↑ "First US Museum to Award Ph.D. Degree: Dean John Flynn Assumes Helm at Richard Gilder Graduate School at AMNH". Education Update Online. February 2009. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Borzilleri, Meri-Jo (March/April 2011). "Taking Seattle by Storm". Yale Alumni Magazine. "Gilder's father, Richard Gilder '54, gave $4 million toward the current crew boathouse, completed in 2000." 
  9. ↑ YALE Bulletin & Calendar, Volume 35, Number 30, June 15, 2007
  10. ↑ "Ginny Gilder biography and Olympic results". Sports Reference LLC. 
  11. ↑ Brewer, Jerry (September 25, 2012). "Storm co-owner Gilder's resolve takes your breath away". Seattle Times. 
  12. ↑ "Lois Chiles Talks About Being a Bond Girl". The New York Times. November 7, 2012. 
  13. ↑ "Lois Chiles: biography". SuperiorPics.com. 

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