Early Life
Bingham was one of seven sons of former Connecticut Governor and US Senator Hiram Bingham III and his first wife, Alfreda Mitchell, the heiress of the Tiffany and Co. fortune through her grandfather Charles L. Tiffany. His great-grandfather Hiram Bingham I and grandfather Hiram Bingham II were the first missionaries to the Kingdom of Hawai'i. Hiram Bingham III was also the discoverer of the Inca ruins at Machu Picchu. Bingham attended the prestigious Groton School and graduated from Yale University in 1925.
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