Twice elected to the Connecticut State Senate, his initial fortune was built on the success of an establishment in New York that he'd purchased from John Scudder.  
He once went to jail due to a libel suit stemming from his Herald of Freedom newspaper, while donations to Tufts University were part of his so-called "profitable philanthropy."  Twice elected to the Connecticut State Senate, his initial fortune was built on the success of an establishment in New York that he'd purchased from John Scudder.  He turned a collection of articles he wrote for the New York Weekly Mercury debunking frauds in history into the book Humbugs of the World and went on a European Tour with "General Tom Thumb."  In addition he founded the American Museum which housed the Siamese twins Chang and Eng.  For 10 points, name this creator of the "Greatest Show on Earth" who entered into a partnership with James A. Bailey.
He once went to jail due to a libel suit stemming from his Herald of Freedom newspaper, while donations to Tufts University were part of his so-called "profitable philanthropy."  
Phineas Taylor Barnum