What is the personality type of James Gordon Bennett? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for James Gordon Bennett from The Greatest Showman 2017 and what is the personality traits.
James Gordon Bennett personality type is INTJ, a rare type in a world of ‘intuitive’ and ‘thinking’ types.”
Bennett was also a gifted writer, and in his later years was a popular essayist and reviewer of books, writing essays on a wide variety of subjects, including political news and reviews of his fellow journalists. He was a founder of the New York Press Association. In the 1880s he lost both his wife and son from tuberculosis, and from then on spent much time in Westchester County, New York.
In addition to his editorial work, Bennett wrote a number of books. His last book “The Case For Foreign Policy,” a campaign document for Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, is considered a classic of its genre. He also wrote several novels under the pseudonym of S. E. Churchil.
Bennett was named to the board of directors of the National Republican Party in 1872, and to the Republican National Committee in 1876. In 1877, he was elected to the 62nd Congress from New York’s Fourth District, serving from March 4 to March 3, 1877. He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1878.
James Gordon Bennett Sr. was the founder of the New York Herald, portrayed by Paul Sparks and often covered Barnum's circus, portraying it in a negative way. He is the one who gave Barnum the idea to call it a "circus"