Harold Brayman

Background

Brayman, Harold was born on March 10, 1900 in Middleburgh, New York, United States. Son of Channing and Minnie C. (Feeck) Brayman.

Education

AB, Cornell University, 1920. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Gettysburg College, 1965.

Career

Teacher English and history, Fort Lee (New Jersey) High School, 1920-1922; reporter, Albany (New York) Evening Journal, 1922-1924; assistant legislative correspondent, New York Evening Post, 1924-1926; correspondent, New York Evening Post, 1926-1928; Washington correspondent, New York Evening Post, 1928-1933; Washington correspondent, Philadelphia Evening Ledger writer syndicated column, Daily Mirror of Washington, 1934-1940; Washington correspondent, Houston Chronicle and other newspapers, 1940-1942. Special correspondent in, London, 1925, covered all national conversations and national political campaigns, 1928-1940. Assistant director, public relations department E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, 1942-1944, director, 1944-1965.

Corporate executive in residenceAm. U., 1968; board visitors School Public Relations and Communications, Boston University, chairman, 1961-1971.

Achievements

• Harold Brayman has been listed as a noteworthy public relations consultant by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The President Speaks Off The Record

    (This is a history of the Gridiron Club, an exclusive orga...)

  • The President speaks off-the-record: From Grover Cleveland to Gerald Ford ... : historic evenings with America's leaders, the press, and other men of power, at Washington's exclusive Gridiron Club

    (Book by Brayman, Harold)

  • A HISTORY OF THE LINCOLN CLUB OF DELAWARE the Formative Years 1929-1943, By Albert O.H. Grier and the Last Quarter Century 1944-1969 By Harold Brayman

    (B2-1841. With a listing of various officers and members. ...)

  • Corporate management in a world of politics; the public, political, and governmental problems of business.
  • The President Speaks Off the Record. Historic Evenings With America's Leaders, the Press, and Other Men of Power at Washington's Most Exclusive Club-the Gridiron. From Grover Cleveland to Gerald Ford
  • Developing a philosophy for business action;: A history of the Public Relations Seminar
  • Corporate Management in a World of Politics

Membership

Member Cornell University Council, chairman, 1961-1963. Member Cornell Centennial planning committee, also chairman advisory council graduate school business public administration, 1960-1965. Trustee emeritus Gettysburg College.

Trustee Foundation for Public Relations Research and Education, 1956-1962, Wilmington Medical Center. Member sponsoring committee Public Relations Seminar, 1952-1961. Accompanied Alfred E. Smith through 1928 campaign and F.D. Roosevelt through 1932 campaign for New York Evening Post, Philadelphia Public Ledger and Philadelphia Evening Ledger.

Member United States Chamber of Commerce (committee on taxation 1954-1960, committee on government operations and expenditures 1964-1966), American Academy Achievement (vice president 1966-1974), Manufacturing Chemists Association (public relations advisory committee 1951-1956, chairman 1951-1953), Mencken Society of Delaware (president 1980-1981), Americans for the Competitive Enterprise System (life board directors). Clubs: University (New York City), Gridiron (president 1941), National Press (president 1938), Overseas Writers (Washington), Wilmington, Wilmington Country (director 1952-1964), Greenville Country (Wilmington, Delaware). Lodges: Rotary.

Connections

Married Martha Witherspoon Wood, January 25, 1930. Children: Harold Halliday, Walter Witherspoon.

Father:

Channing Brayman

Mother:

Minnie C. (Feeck) Brayman

Spouse:

Martha Witherspoon Wood

child:

Harold Halliday Brayman

child:

Walter Witherspoon Brayman