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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 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 Dryden (/ ˈ d r aɪ d ən /; 19 August [O.S. 9 August] 1631 – 12 May [O.S. 1 May] 1700) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who in 1668 was appointed England's first Poet Laureate.
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.
May 9, 2024 · John Dryden (born August 9 [August 19, New Style], 1631, Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire, England—died May 1 [May 12], 1700, London) was an English poet, dramatist, and literary critic who so dominated the literary scene of his day that it came to be known as the Age of Dryden.
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.
After John Donne and John Milton, John Dryden was the greatest English poet of the 17th century. After William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, he was the greatest playwright. And he has no peer as a writer of prose, especially literary criticism, and as a translator.
