Today's Notable U. S. Birthday

Phineas Taylor "P.T." Barnum - Early promoter of "show business" (Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus).

Civil War Cycle - Era of Good Feeling - First Turning, High (1788-1821)
Transcendental Generation - Prophet (Idealist) (1792-1821)

Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an American showman, businessman, and entertainer, remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the circus that became the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. His successes may have made him the first "show business" millionaire.  Although Barnum was also an author, publisher, philanthropist, and sometime politician, he said of himself, "I am a showman by profession...and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me," and his personal aims were "to put money in his own coffers." Barnum is widely but erroneously credited with coining the phrase "There's a sucker born every minute."

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