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Gifford Pinchot was born in Simsbury, Connecticut, USA. He was an American forester and politician. He served as the first Chief of the United States Forest Service from 1905 until his firing in 1910. He was the 28th Governor of Pennsylvania, serving from 1923 to 1927, and again from 1931 to 1935. He was a member of the Republican Party. He is known for reforming the management and development of forests in the United States and for advocating the conservation of the nation's reserves by planned use and renewal. He was the first to demonstrate the practicality and profitability of managing forests for continuous cropping. His leadership put conservation of forests high on America's priority list. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy. He studied at Yale University in 1889. He studied as a postgraduate at the French National School of Forestry, in Nancy.