Alfred M. Bingham

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Alfred Mitchell Bingham (1905 – 1998) was an American social reformer, writer, founder and editor of Common Sense magazine, lawyer, and politician.

Biography

Alfred Bingham was born in 1905, the third son of Hiram Bingham III and Alfreda Mitchell Bingham,[1] granddaughter of Charles Lewis Tiffany, the founder of the Fifth Avenue store, Tiffany & Co.[2] He attended Groton[2] and later graduated from Yale College in 1927 and Yale Law School in 1930.[1] After obtaining his law degree, he embarked on a two year trip around the world, visiting several countries and using family connections to gain interviews with Mussolini, Gandhi and other international figures for American newspapers.[2] In the Soviet Union, he was impressed by the apparent success of the first Five Year Plan.[2]

Back in the United States, he began the progressive journal Common Sense with Selden Rodman, and which the two of them owned and operated until it ceased circulation in 1945.[1] In the 1930s, Bingham was also involved in a variety of progressive organizations and movements, including the League for Independent Political Action. In 1940, Bingham was elected on the Democratic Party ticket to the Connecticut State Senate in which he served one two year term.[1] From 1944 to 1946, Bingham served in the United States Army in Germany. After World War II ended, he settled in Southeastern Connecticut where he practiced law and became involved in local, state, and national progressive organizations.[1]

In 1981, after the death of his first wife, Sylvia Knox, he married Katherine Stryker Dunn.[2]

Works

  • Challenge to the New Deal (1934; with Selden Rodman)
  • A Plan of Transition to an Economy of Abundance Through Production for Use (1935)
  • Beware of Europe's Wars: A Warning to American Liberals and Progressives (1937)
  • Insurgent America: The Revolt of the Middle-classes (1938)
  • What is the American Way? (1938)
  • Man's Estate: Adventures in Economic Discovery (1939)
  • The United States of Europe (1940)
  • Which Road for America: Staying Out of War or the Military Defeat of Germany? (1941)
  • America's Role in the World: A Reading List (1941)
  • The Techniques of Democracy (1942)
  • The Practice of Idealism (1944)
  • Violence & Democracy (1970)
  • Portrait of an Explorer: Hiram Bingham, Discoverer of Machu Picchu (1989)
  • The Tiffany Fortune: And Other Chronicles of a Connecticut Family (1996)

Notes

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External links

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