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The First Chamber of Commerce in the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Lee M. Friedman
Lee M. Friedman
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Boston, Massachusetts
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The chamber of commerce, which today varies widely in the range of its activities and functions, has had a long and important history. As an association of business men, its history goes back at least to Roman times; the first such association to bear the name “chamber of commerce” was that of Marseilles, established in 1599. The organization we know as the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York was not only the first association of business men for the purpose of furthering their interests to be launched in America; it also ranks among the world's oldest of such institutions, established and conducted independently of government, which exist today.

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Research Article
Information
Business History Review , Volume 21 , Issue 5 , November 1947 , pp. 137 - 143
Copyright
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1947

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1 Sturges, Kenneth, American Chambers of Commerce, Department of Political Science, Williams College, 1915.Google Scholar

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