Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Hiram Bingham (1789 - 1863) was a clergyman and an early missionary to Hawaii. He is buried at Grove Street Cemetery, in New Haven, Connecticut. A later Hiram Bingham (1875 - 1956) was an American explorer and politician. A teacher at Yale, he rediscovered the Incan settlement of Machu Picchu of 1911. In later life, he was a senator. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.