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John Fairfield Dryden (August 7, 1839 – November 24, 1911) was an American insurance executive and Republican politician who represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from 1902 to 1907. Prior to his election, Dryden founded the Fidelity Trust Company and Prudential Insurance Company.
John Fairfield Dryden (born Aug. 7, 1839, Temple Mills, Maine, U.S.—died Nov. 24, 1911) was an American senator and businessman, the founder of the Prudential Insurance Company of America, the first company to issue industrial life insurance in the United States.
John F. Dryden. Prudential Life Insurance Company. 1881–1911. Industry: Finance. Era: pre-1900. In 1881, Dryden became head of the company he helped found six years prior.
John Fairfield Dryden (August 7, 1839 – November 24, 1911) was an American insurance executive and Republican politician who represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from 1902 to 1907. Prior to his election, Dryden founded the Fidelity Trust Company and Prudential Insurance Company.
Mr. John Dryden introduced industrial life insurance into America and brought it to wide acceptance as a major social and economic device. This constituted a new concept of family financing planning and brought life insurance within the financial reach of all people.
John Fairfield Dryden. Businessman, US Senator. In 1875 he founded what would become the Prudential Life Insurance Company in a basement office in Newark, New Jersey. The company was the first to provide affordable industrial, life and burial insurance to the working class.
Ex-United States Senator John F. Dryden, President of the Prudential Insurance Company of America, also known as the "Father of Industrial Insurance," died at 6 o'clock last night at his home...
