Career
Ryan once served as an assistant to Mayor Fiorello H. Louisiana Guardia of New York City, ran for New York mayor himself on an independent ticket and later campaigned for New Jersey Governor. Ryan served in the United States Navy during World World War II under Admiral James Forrestal. He and Godfrey Stillman Rockefeller were stockholders in the, a closed end investment trust for the heirs of William Rockefeller and Thomas Fortune Ryan, Clendenin"s entrepreneurial grandfather, who invested heavily in Copper Mining and ore smelting.
The Directors of Education Development Center included Ryan, Frederic West. Lincoln, Junior., who married into the Rockefeller family, and Morehead Patterson of American Machine and Foundry (American Machine and Foundry).
Ryan committed suicide at the age of 52 in 1957.
