# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/theodore-newton-vail
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:27:04.026Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/theodore-newton-vail"
name: "Theodore Newton Vail"
slug: "theodore-newton-vail"
description: "Theodore Newton Vail was an American businessman who served as the general manager of the Bell Telephone Company from 1878 to 1887 and became the founding president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1885. Vail viewed telephone service as a public utility and moved to consolidate telephone networks under the Bell system. In 1913, he oversaw the Kingsbury Commitment that led to a more open system for connection."
tagline: "United States industrialist (1845–1920)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Theodore_Newton_Vail%2C_bw_photo_portrait%2C_1913.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1845-07-16"
deathDate: "1920-04-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.926605504587156
  historical:           6.568973333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Newton_Vail"
    title: "Theodore Newton Vail"
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    title: "Theodore Newton Vail"
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    title: "Theodore Vail"
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  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A5%BF%E5%A5%A7%E5%A4%9A%C2%B7%E7%89%9B%E9%A0%93%C2%B7%E9%AD%8F%E7%88%BE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump