FREDERICK OSBORN

(Frederick Henry Osborn)


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  • Born: March 21, 1889
  • Died: January 5, 1981
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Major General Frederick Henry Osborn was an American philanthropist, military leader, and eugenicist. He was a founder of several organizations and played a central part in reorienting eugenics in the years following World War II away from the race- and class-consciousness of earlier periods. The American Philosophical Society considers him to have been "the respectable face of eugenic research in the post-war period."(APS, 1983)