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Brookings, Robert Somers

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Brookings, Robert Somers (1850–1932)

US business executive and philanthropist. He was a successful businessman in St Louis, first in manufacturing, then property, timber, and transport. A patron of the arts in St Louis, he raised funds for Washington University (St Louis). He wrote Industrial Ownership (1924) and Economic Democracy (1929).

He was born in Cecil County, Maryland, and had little formal education. After his retirement from business in 1896, he helped found the Brookings Institution in Washington DC, for the study of public affairs, becoming its first chairman in 1916.



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