Gifford Pinchot: The People’s Governor

Join Gary Ryman as we learn about the eight years of Gifford Pinchot’s two terms as Governor of Pennsylvania.

Explore these eight years during a dynamic period of history, displaying Gifford as a forward-thinking leader, ahead of his times in many ways.

Learn how Gifford described as “prickly and cantankerous to the powerful who ran the political machines” drew his support from rural areas and working-class men and women, who made him the people’s governor.