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Hilton Howell Railey (1 August 1895 – 1 May 1975) was an American Journalist, Author, soldier, entrepreneur and public relations professional. He is most known for his discovery of Amelia Earhart and management of her first flight across the atlantic in 1928.

Early life
Hilton Howell Railey was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on August 1, 1895, the son of William Mays Railey and Lina Leacock Railey. He is a grand nephew of Jefferson Davis. He studied at Tulane University and the University of California, Berkeley.

In the late 1920's, Railey, through his friendship with publisher George P. Putnam, was given the task of searching for a suitable female airplane pilot to be the first to fly (or be flown) across the Atlantic. This led to his discovery of Emelia Earhart and her subsequent historic flight on June 17, 1928. Railey served as the press agent and Earhart's personal manager for the expedition.

Later that year, Railey was engaged by Richard E. Byrd to help raise funds for Byrd's first Antarctic expedition (1928-1930), and subsequently served as the expedition's press agent, publicist, and as Byrd's personal manager.

In 1932 Railey joined with noted engineer and naval architect Simon Lake to embark on an expedition to salvage the RMS Lusitania using a pressurized steel tube developed by Lake that would be lowered to the depth of the wreck from a platform at the surface. The expedition ran into insurmountable legal and financial difficulties and was cancelled before the salvage work could commence. Railey's losses from the failed expedition, together with an overall shortfall in fundraising brought about by the Great Depression caused his expedtion-funding business to close.

In a last ditch attempt to recover his personal finances, Railey traveled to London and proposed to the Associated Press that that he embark on a series of interviews of European leaders (Hitler, Mussolini, Dollfuss, Stalin, Pilsudski, and others) regarding the risks to peace in Europe. The AP turned it down, but while there Railey was contacted by representatives of the London correspondent of the Völkischer Beobachter

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