Richard Gilder

Stockbroker, Person

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Who is Richard 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.

After working at the brokerage firm of A.G. Becker & Co., Gilder founded the firm now known as Gilder, Gagnon, Howe & Co. in 1968. 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, and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. He is Chairman Emeritus of both, the conservative think-tank, the Manhattan Institute and the conservative political action committee, the Club for Growth. Gilder is the Chairman Emeritus of the Club For Growth, and his ex-wife, Virginia James, continues to be a major donor. In 2005, Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman received the National Humanities Medal for their work promoting the study of American history.

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  • United States of America
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Education
  • Yale University
    ( - 1954)
  • Northfield Mount Hermon School
  • Doctor of Humane Letters

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on July 23, 2013

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