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unusual facts about Benjamin C. Bradlee


Bowdoin B. Crowninshield

His cousin once removed was Frederick Josiah Bradlee, Jr. (1892–1970) whose son was Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (born 1921).


Benjamin C. Marsh

Overcrowding in places like the Lower East Side led the National Consumers League and other groups to establish the Committee on Congestion of Population in 1907; Marsh was hired as the committee's first executive secretary.

Benjamin C. Thompson

After the war he moved to Lexington, Massachusetts, where he participated in the design and creation of Six Moon Hill, a neighborhood of modern houses (his first wife wife Mary Okes Thompson lived in the Moon Hill Home through 2004).

Design Research is often noted today for being the first U.S. proprietor of the Finnish clothing and textiles of Marimekko.

Benjamin C. Truman

When the Civil War began, he became a war correspondent, then declined a commission in 1862 to become a staff aide to Andrew Johnson, military governor of Tennessee, and Generals James S. Negley, John H. King and Kenner Garrard.

:for the English brewer, see Sir Benjamin Truman

Laird-Dunlop House

Benjamin C. Bradlee, the Washington Post editor during the Watergate era, purchased the house in 1983 and lives there with Sally Quinn.


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