George Putnam was an American minister and a founding member of the Transcendental Club of writers and intellectuals. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Divinity School, Putnam worked as pastor of the Unitarian First Church in Roxbury, Massachusetts, for nearly 50 years. He also served in the Massachusetts Legislature for two years and was a Fellow of Harvard Corporation.
- Occupation
- Christian minister
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- 1807, August 16, 1807
- Died
- 1878, April 11, 1878