Who served as the first president of the organization at which a partner of the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White was a founding member?
National Sculpture Society Founded in 1893, the National Sculpture Society (NSS) was the first organization of professional sculptors formed in the United States. The purpose of the organization was to promote the welfare of American sculptors, although its founding members included several renowned architects. The founding members included such well known figures of the day as Daniel Chester French, Augustus St. Gaudens, Richard Morris Hunt, and Stanford White as well as sculptors less familiar today, such as Herbert Adams, Paul W. Bartlett, Karl Bitter, J. Massey Rhind, and John Quincy Adams Ward—who served as the first president for the society.
Frederic Rhinelander King Frederic Rhinelander King (1887–1972), was an American architect, co-founder, with Marion Sims Wyeth, of the New York City architectural firm Wyeth and King.