Hospitality | Tourism 2023: DOUG BRADBURN

PRESIDENT AND CEO, GEORGE WASHINGTON’S MOUNT VERNON, MOUNT VERNON

Published August 30, 2023 by Virginia Business

Bradburn has been leading the most popular historic estate in the U.S. since 2018. The historic home of the first U.S. president and his wife, Martha Washington, welcomes an average of 1 million visitors each year.

An author and scholar of early American history, Bradburn joined Mount Vernon in 2013 as the founding director of the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon. Prior to that, Bradburn served as chair of the history department at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He received his doctorate in history from the University of Chicago and his bachelor’s degree in history and economics from the University of Virginia.

The private, nonprofit organization launched an ambitious $150 million campaign in 2021, Mount Vernon’s most significant fundraising effort since the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association of the Union’s original drive to purchase and restore the estate more than 160 years ago. The Ladies’ Association still owns and maintains the historic site.

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