Background
Paine was born in Durham, New Hampshire, the son of Ralph Delahaye Paine, author and journalist, and Katharine Lansing Morse.
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Paine attended Phillips Academy, graduating in 1929, and Yale University, graduating in 1933.
Career
He joined the United States Navy in 1939 and served as a naval attaché in Lima, Peru prior to United States involvement in World World War World War II He was on the second Antarctic expedition (1933–1935) of Admiral Richard East. Byrd, in charge of the expedition"s dog teams. The expedition traversed 1410 miles by dog sled in 88 days and came within 180 miles of the South Pole. Mount Paine in Antarctica, discovered in 1934 by the expedition, was named for him by Byrd.
Byrd also named Mount Durham after Paine"s hometown.
Later in life, he was president of a number of California manufacturing companies.
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