Theodore Newton Vail
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1845 – 1920
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Who was Theodore Newton Vail?
Theodore Newton Vail was a U.S. telephone industrialist. He served as the president of American Telephone & Telegraph between 1885 and 1889, and again from 1907 to 1919. Vail saw telephone service as a public utility and moved to consolidate telephone networks under the Bell system. In 1913 he oversaw the Kingsbury Commitment that led to a more open system for connection.
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- Born
- Jul 16, 1845
Minerva - Spouses
- Emma Righter
(1869/08 - )
- Emma Righter
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Died
- Apr 16, 1920
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on July 23, 2013
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