Samuel Wilson Rutherford (September 15, 1866 – January 18, 1952) was an American
businessman
A businessperson, businessman, or businesswoman is an individual who has founded, owns, or holds shares in (including as an angel investor) a private-sector company. A businessperson undertakes activities (commercial or industrial) for th ...
who founded the
National Benefit Insurance Company in
Washington, D.C.
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In 1927, he won the first award and
gold medal of the
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, for "his sound management and leadership of his company, which was developed from a small sick benefit association with