Harry Frank Guggenheim (August 23, 1890 – January 22, 1971) was an American businessman, diplomat, publisher, philanthropist, aviator, and horseman.

This fund, totaling $3 million, included an equipment loan for operating the first regularly scheduled commercial airline in the United States.

[7] In World War II, he was recalled to active duty in the Navy and served in the South Pacific as a tail gunner on a torpedo bomber.

According to his obituary, "much of his time during that period was devoted to prevailing on the Cuban dictator‐president, Gen. Gerardo Machado y Morales, "not to murder too many of his political enemies", as Mr. Guggenheim later put it.

[1] In 1929, President Herbert Hoover appointed Guggenheim to serve on the National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics, a position that he held until 1938.

His Cain Hoy Stable raced in the United States and was the owner of numerous successful horses including the 1953 Kentucky Derby winner Dark Star, the only horse ever to defeat the legendary Native Dancer, and Eclipse Award winner Bald Eagle.

[citation needed] Guggenheim was president of the company, while his wife was editor and publisher until her death in 1963, then he assumed those duties until 1967.

But Guggenheim was disappointed by the liberal drift of the newspaper under Moyers, criticizing the "left-wing" coverage of Vietnam War protests.

[20] Before their divorce in 1923, they were the parents of one daughter:[1] On July 1, 1939, Guggenheim married for the third time to Alicia (née Patterson) Brooks (1906–1963) in Jacksonville, Florida.

[23] Guggenheim died of cancer on January 22, 1971, at "Falaise",[24] his home at Sands Point on Long Island, New York.