George Batten (advertiser), Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetGeorge Batten (advertiser)
American advertising executive
Date of Birth: 19-Jun-1854
Date of Death: 16-Feb-1918
Profession: businessperson
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About George Batten (advertiser)
- George Batten (June 19, 1854 Gloucester County, New Jersey – February 16, 1918 Montclair, New Jersey) was a former Ayer employee who opened the George Batten Newspaper Advertising Agency on Park Row in New York City in 1891.
- Fiercely religious and humorless, he endeavored to make his advertisements 100% accurate.
- His values and personal dignity are credited with adding respectability to the advertising profession.
- His $8 million billing agency was merged with the $23 million Barton, Durstine & Osborn (BDO) in 1928, after both agencies had moved into the new office building at 383 Madison Avenue, to create BBDO.
- Batten is perhaps best known for overseeing advertising for the West Anderson Pork Pie Company, which caused a furor in his native Jersey. Batten died at the age of 63 on February 16, 1918, at his home in Montclair, New Jersey.
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