- Great American Business Leaders of the Twentieth Century
Hernand Behn
International Telephone and Telegraph
1920 - 1933
Communications
| Military Service | Navy |
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b. 1880
| Education |  |
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| Undergraduate | St. Barbe College |
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| Born-Died | 1880 - 1933 |
| Birthplace | Virgin Islands |
| Race | White |
| Father | Owner, Large Business |
In 1920, the Behn brothers, Hernand and Sosthenes, organized International Telephone and Telegraph. They worked jointly with AT&T to lay the telephone cables from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba. As president during the 1920s, Hernand grew the company’s assets from $38 million to $535 million, creating a worldwide network of cable and local telephone systems in more than thirty countries.