Frederick Osborn
Frederick Henry Osborn | |
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| Born | March 21, 1889 New York, U.S. |
| Died | January 5, 1981 (aged 91) New York, U.S. |
| Allegiance | United States |
| Branch | United States Army |
| Service years | 1940–1944 |
| Rank | Major General |
| Conflicts | World War II |
| Alma mater | Princeton University Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Other work | philanthropist |
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Major General Frederick Henry Osborn CBE (March 21, 1889 – January 5, 1981) was an American philanthropist, military leader, and eugenicist. He was a founder of several organizations and played a central part in reorienting eugenics away from overt racism in the years leading up to World War II. The American Philosophical Society considers him to have been "the respectable face of eugenic research in the post-war period." Osborn was the nephew of the paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn.