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• Hij is geboren op 16 juli 1877 in near Cedartown, Georgia.
• Hij is overleden op 9 november 1934 in New York, New York, hij was toen 57 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven in Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, Westchester County, New York.
• Een kind van James Wideman Lee en Emma Eufaula Ledbetter
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 17 december 2012.

Gezin van Ivy Ledbetter Lee [[K PqWikiFgcNYBu]]6

Hij is getrouwd met Cornella Bartlette Bigelow.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 20 november 1901 te St. Paul, Minnesota, hij was toen 24 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Alice Bigelow Lee  1902-1992 
2. James Wideman Lee  1906-1999 
3. Ivy Ledbetter Lee  1909-1980 

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Ivy Lee
http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/fall01%5CJones/lee.html

While attending Princeton University, Ivy Lee participated in the school newspaper. Using these skills as a journalist he found his way into newspaper writing, as most public relations specialists first do.
He worked for the New York American, the New York Times and the New York World writing mostly about financial and business issues. In 1903 he took his first step toward public relations by landing a job as publicity manager for the Citizens' Union. He authored a textbook entitled The Best Administration New York City Ever Had and then accepted a press job with the Democratic National Committee.
In 1905 partnering with a collegue from the DNC, George Parker, they agreed to form their own public relations firm, Parker and Lee. He then published his "Declaration of Principles," which focused on giving factual information to the public. Then in 1906 he came to work for the Pennsylvania Railroad company, which at that time was under public scrutiny for denying information and interviews to reporters.
At once, Lee decided to update reporters on business matters and take them to the accident sites. Later he became the executive assistant to the president of Pennsylvania Railroad, which gave him notoriety. From this exposure John D. Rockefeller, Jr. asked for Lee's help in controlling the media during the strikes at the Colorado Fuel and Oil Company. Shortly there after he accepted a position on the personal advisory staff of John D. Rockefeller, Sr in 1915.
With a longtime interest in Russia, Lee decided to use his skills to campaign for the Soviet Union. He thought that if he could establish a commercial trade link between the U.S. and Soviet Union that it would open the lines of communication and squash its turmoil. This only created accusations of Lee being a Russian propagandaist, which never proved to be true. Other controversy stirred when he did consulting work for I.G. Farben Industries of Germany and was accused of being a Nazi advocate.
Lee started a revolution to inform the public on private interests by providing facts so the public could better understand the policies and routines of American corporations. "You suddenly find you are not running a private business, but you are running a business of which the public itself is taking complete supervision," said Lee.

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Ivy Ledbetter Lee (July 16, 1877 – November 9, 1934) is considered by some to be the founder of modern public relations, although the title could also be held by Edward Bernays.

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1 Early life and career
2 Impact on public relations
3 See also
4 External links
5 Bibliography
6 References

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Early life and career
Ivy Lee was born near Cedartown, Georgia as the son of a Methodist minister. He studied at Emory College and then graduated from Princeton. He worked as a newspaper reporter and stringer. Together with George Parker he established the US's third public relations firm, Parker and Lee, in late 1904. The new agency boasted of "Accuracy, Authenticity, and Interest." They made this partnership after working together in the Democratic Party headquarters handling publicity for Judge Alton Parker's unsuccessful presidential race against Theodore Roosevelt.

The Parker and Lee firm lasted less than four years, but the junior partner — Lee — was to become one of the most influential pioneers in public relations. He evolved his philosophy in 1906 into the "Declaration of Principles," the first articulation of the concept that public relations practitioners have a public responsibility that extends beyond obligations to the client. In the same year, after an accident with the Pennsylvania Railroad, Lee issued what is often considered to be the very first press release, convincing the company to openly disclose information to journalists, before they could hear information from elsewhere.[citation needed]

When Lee was hired full time by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1912, he was considered to be the first public relations person placed in an executive-level position. In fact, his archives reveal that he drafted one of the first job descriptions of a VP-level corporate public relations position.

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Impact on public relations
Many historians credit Lee with being the originator of modern crisis communications. His principal competitor in the new public relations industry was Edward Bernays. In 1914 he was to enter public relations on a much larger scale when he was retained by John D. Rockefeller Jr to represent his family and Standard Oil, ("to burnish the family image"), after the the coal mining rebellion in Colorado known as the "Ludlow Massacre". From then on he faithfully served the Rockefellers and their corporate interests, including a strong involvement in Rockefeller Center, even after he set up his own consulting firm.

His instruction to the son of the Standard Oil fortune was to echo in public relations henceforth: "Tell the truth, because sooner or later the public will find out anway. And if the public doesn't like what you are doing, change your policies and bring them into line with what people want". His influence on "Junior" was such that Rockefeller became dedicated to improving labor relations between businesses and their employees across the nation. Additionally, Lee is considered to be the father of the modern public relations campaign when, from 1913-1914, he successfully lobbied for a successful railroad rate increase from a reluctant federal government.

Lee espoused a philosophy consistent with what has sometimes been called the "two-way street" approach to public relations, in which PR consists of helping clients listen as well as communicate messages to their publics. In practice, however, Lee often engaged in one-way propagandizing on behalf of clients despised by the public. Shortly before his death, the US Congress had been investigating his work on behalf of the controversial Nazi German company IG Farben.

Lee also worked for Bethlehem Steel, in which capacity he famously advised managers to list their top priorities and work on tasks in that order, not proceeding until a task was completed. For this suggestion company head Charles M. Schwab paid him $25,000.

Through his sister Laura, Lee was an uncle to novelist William S. Burroughs.

Ivy Ledbetter Lee died in New York in 1934 at the age of 57.

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See also
Public Relations
Edward Bernays
Rockefeller family
John D. Rockefeller Jr
Standard Oil
Press release
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External links
Short Biography
Ivy Ledbetter Lee Papers

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Bibliography
Writings by Ivy Ledbetter Lee:

Present-day Russia. New York: Macmillan, 1928.

"James Wideman Lee: biographical sketch." in, James W. Lee, The geography of genius. New York: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1920, p. xi-xxiv.

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References
New York Times article of February 13, 2005, "Spinning Frenzy: P.R.'s Bad Press," by Timothy L. O'Brien.

Hiebert, Ray Eldon. Courtier to the crowd : the story of Ivy Lee and the development of public relations. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1966.

On 5/6/05, Jim Lee <(XXXXX@XXXX.XXX) > wrote:
Emily Harris Wideman was 16 when she married 17-year-old Zachry James Lee inLone Oak, Georgia. Her father, Henry Wideman--son of Adam Wideman--had died in 1835. Emily's half-sister Lucy Ann Wideman was married to Zachry's olderbrother William Owen Lee, by then a farmer in Lone Oak.Henry Wideman (1788--1835) first married Frances Roberts, with childrenLucinda, Louisa, Eliza, Lucy Ann, and Rachel. Rachel was born about 1828.After the death of Franes Roberts, Henry married Mildred "Millie" Sewell.Together they had three children, Martha, James H. Wideman, and Emily Harris Wideman. After Millie Sewell's death a month after the birth of Emily,Henry married Millie's sister, Mary Elizabeth "Polly" Sewell and had onemore child, Margaret Ann Wideman in 1834. Henry died June, 1835, and is buried on his former plantation near Hogansville, in Troup County, Georgia.Emily's husband Zachry lived in Gwinnett County near his recentlywidowed mother Rebecca Brock Lee. In the next several years they had seven children, the oldest being James Wideman Lee. Zachry went off to war in1863, and returned in 1865. These were tough years for Emily, especiallyduring the war. Her mother-in-law Rebecca died in May, 1863. Her daughter Mary Effie died in February 1864. Her youngest son, Joseph, died in July,1865, and the following month her husband Zachry died in farm accident.Emily was two months pregnant.Soon Emily sent her oldest son James Wideman Lee to live with his uncle, Richard Ivy Sewell and his wife, Martha Adeline Lee--Zachry's oldersister--in Lone Oak. They helped James Wideman Lee finish high school inGrantville, and then on to college at Emory. James Wideman Lee became a noted Methodist minister, author and speaker. He had pulpits in Atlanta andSt. Louis. One of his books, "The Earthly Footprints of Christ and HisApostles," sold more than a million copies.Emily died in Lone Oak while on a visit in 1874. She is buried in the cemetery at the Allen-Lee Memorial United Methodist Church, named partly forher son James Wideman Lee.And like the television pitchman says, just wait--there's more. JamesWideman Lee sent his son Ivy Ledbetter Lee to Princeton. See "The Encyclopiedia Americana" for more about Ivy Lee. In his brief biographythere Ivy Lee was called the "father of modern public relations." Not badfor the grandson of a 16-year-old orphan named Emily. --Jim Lrr

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