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Dun & Bradstreet is celebrating 185 years of operation, a span that runs from the establishment of the first commercial credit ratings in the nineteenth century to a declared role powering the artificial intelligence economy today.
The Jacksonville, Florida-based data company made the announcement on July 1, 2026, anchoring the milestone to a lineage that once counted Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S.
Grant, Grover Cleveland, and William McKinley among its credit reporters.
A Presidential Alumni Network Built on Credit Intelligence Before any of the four men reached the White House, they worked as credit reporters for Dun & Bradstreet — gathering the kind of commercial intelligence the company claims to have pioneered through the first commercial credit ratings.
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