Henry Adams Bellows (businessman)

Henry Adams Bellows (September 22, 1885 – December 29, 1939) was a newspaper editor and radio executive who was an early member of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.

Born in Portland, Maine, Bellows graduated from Harvard University in 1906, and then taught English as an assistant there for three years.

[3] He also worked for the Minnesota Orchestra,[4] in 1921–23 was music critic for the Minneapolis Daily News, and in 1925 was the manager of WCCO, one of the top radio stations in the country.

To forestall greater government interference in broadcasting, he advocated stations' programming individually to meet their listeners' needs; he left the FRC 18 months into his three-year term.

[3][10] The range of his four other books indicates the breadth of his interests:[5] Manual for Local Defense,[11] A Treatise on Riot Duty for National Guards,[12] Highland Light, and Other Poems[4][13][14] and A Short History of Flour Milling.