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Henry Pratt Fairchild (1880–1956) was a distinguished American

United States

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Sociology

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. He was a sociologist who was actively involved in many of the controversial issues of his time. He wrote about race relations, abortion and contraception, and immigration. He was involved with the founding of Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood

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and served as President to the American Eugenics Society

American Eugenics Society

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Early life

Fairchild was born in Dundee, Illinois. His father was Arthur Babbitt Fairchild, a descendant of Thomas Fairchild who settled in New England in 1639 and his mother a member of the Pratt industrialist family.

Fairchild grew up in Crete, Nebraska, where his father was professor at Doane College. Fairchild attended Doane

Doane College

Doane College is a private liberal arts college in Crete, Nebraska, United States, with additional campuses located in Lincoln and Grand Island.-History:...

(AB, 1900) and Yale University

Yale University

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(PhD, 1909). He also received an honorary LL.D. from Doane in 1930.

Organizer and Professor

Fairchild was president of the Population Association of America from 1931-1935(?). He was president of the American Sociological Society in 1936.

He was active with Margaret Sanger

Margaret Sanger

Margaret Higgins Sanger was an American sex educator, nurse, and birth control activist. Sanger coined the term birth control, opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established Planned Parenthood...

in founding Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood

.

Fairchild’s major teaching appointment was at New York University

New York University

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. He served for 26 years, from 1919 until his retirement in 1945, and became chairman of the Department of Sociology in the Graduate School. Much of his work focused on race, nationalism, immigration, and ethnic conflict.

Fairchild was a brother of Fred Rogers Fairchild

Fred Rogers Fairchild

Fred Rogers Fairchild was an American economist and educator. Fairchild was born in Crete, Nebraska. His father was Arthur Babbitt Fairchild, a descendant of Thomas Fairchild who settled in New England in 1639. He was a brother of Henry Pratt Fairchild, a sociologist and educator. Fairchild...

, an economist and educator, and the son and grandson of college presidents.

External links

"Henry P. Fairchild" biography at the American Sociological Society Website.
Henry Pratt Fairchild. Immigration: World Movement and its American Significance. New York: Macmillan, c1913.

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