Gay, Edwin F. (Edwin Francis), 1867-1946

Edwin Francis Gay, 1867-1946, economist and historian. Having graduated from the University of Michigan, he did graduate work in Germany and received his Ph.D. from the University of Berlin in 1902. In 1893 he married Louise FitzRandolph. The couple had two children: Edward Randolph and Margaret Gay Davies. Gay was affiliated with Harvard in 1901-1919 as assistant and Professor of economics. In 1908 he became the first dean of Harvard Business School. During World War I he served as director of the Division of Statistics of the U.S. Shipping Board, and the Imports Bureau of the War Trade Board. He was also a member of the War Industries Board. In 1919-1923 he was editor of the New York Evening Post. Mr. Gay also co-founded the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the Council of Foreign Relations. In 1924 he returned to Harvard as Professor of Economic History. In 1936, he accepted a research position at the Huntington Library where he became director of research in 1941 and remained until his death in 1946.

Epithet: Professor of Economics at Harvard

Gay taught economics, was Dean of Graduate School of Business Administration and served as Overseer at Harvard.

Gay was an economic historian and the first dean of the Harvard Business School (1908-1919). In 1919 he became editor and president of the New York Evening Post, which had just been purchased by Thomas W. Lamont. A syndicate organized by Gay purchased the Post in 1922, but the newspaper's financial troubles forced the group to sell the paper in 1924. Gay returned to Harvard the same year.

American economist; director, United States Central Bureau of Planning and Statistics, 1918-1919.

Gay was an economic historian and the first dean of the Harvard Business School (1908-1919). In 1919 he became editor and president of the New York Post, which had just been purchased by Thomas W. Lamont. A syndicate organized by Gay purchased the Post in 1922, but the newspaper's financial troubles forced the group to sell the paper in 1924. Gay returned to Harvard the same year.

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