| Richard Gilder Born: c. 1932
Birthplace: New York City
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Business, Philanthropist
Party Affiliation: Republican Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History As an interested alumnus, Gilder helped reorganize the investment of Yale's endowment, beginning in the 1970s. With the success of his short-selling strategy, his firm had $11B under management at its peak in 1999. Formerly interested in preserving battlefields, Gilder found a more productive ideological strategy in collecting historical documents. With fellow conservative Lew Lehrman, the pair began to amass a collection of over 50,000 documents and manuscripts from key moments in American history, using them to promote research and alternative historiography. Wife: (four children)
Daughter: Virginia (Olympic medalist, rowing)
Wife: Lois Chiles (actress, m. 2005)
High School: Northfield Mount Hermon School, Northfield, MA (1950)
University: BA History, Yale University (1954)
Gilder, Gagnon, Howe & Co. (1968-)
A. G. Becker & Co.
American Museum of Natural History Trustee
Central Park Conservancy Trustee
Club for Growth Co-founder, Chairman Emeritus
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Co-Founder
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Chairman (past)
Morgan Library & Museum Trustee
New York Historical Society Chairman, Executive Committee
Obama for America
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Executive Committee
Rand Paul for US Senate 2010
Romney for President
Rudy Giuliani Presidential Committee
Ryan for Congress
Thomas Jefferson Foundation Trustee
Jewish Ancestry
French Ancestry Maternal
National Humanities Medal 2005
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