Question: Who coined the phrase "There's a sucker born every minute" and was the basis of an American musical?

Context articles: One Born Every Minute
There's a Fool Born Every Minute
There's One Born Every Minute
Barnum (musical)
P. T. Barnum
List of One Born Every Minute episodes
The Flim-Flam Man
Raw data
Loving Every Minute (Mark Wills song)
There's a sucker born every minute

One Born Every Minute is a British observational documentary series which shows activities taking place in the labour ward.
 The first series aired on Channel 4 in 2010, the second in 2011.
 Series 7 made its debut on 10 March 2015.
 This factual series is produced by Dragonfly Film and Television Productions, which is part of Shine Group.
"There's a Fool Born Every Minute" is a song written by Paul Evans and Paul Parnes.
 It was recorded and released as a single in 1968 by American country artist, Skeeter Davis.
There's One Born Every Minute is a 1942 American Universal Pictures comedy film directed by Harold Young.
 It was the debut film of Elizabeth Taylor.
 It is also known as Man or Mouse.
Barnum is an American musical with a book by Mark Bramble, lyrics by Michael Stewart, and music by Cy Coleman.
 It is based on the life of showman P. T. Barnum, covering the period from 1835 through 1880 in America and major cities of the world where Barnum took his performing companies.
 The production combines elements of traditional musical theater with the spectacle of the circus.
 The characters include jugglers, trapeze artists and clowns, as well as such real-life personalities as Jenny Lind and General Tom Thumb.
Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an American politician, showman, and businessman remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus.
 Although Barnum was also an author, publisher, philanthropist, and for some time a politician, he said of himself, "I am a showman by profession...and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me", and his personal aim was "to put money in his own coffers".
 Barnum is widely, but erroneously, credited with coining the phrase "There's a sucker born every minute".
"One Born Every Minute" is a British observational documentary series which shows activities taking place in the labour ward.
 The first series aired on Channel 4 starting February 9, 2010, the second in 2011.
 Series 7 made its debut on 10 March 2015.
 This factual series is produced by Dragonfly Film and Television Productions, which is part of Shine Group.
The Flim-Flam Man (titled "One Born Every Minute" in some countries) is a 1967 American comedy film directed by Irvin Kershner, featuring George C. Scott, Michael Sarrazin, and Sue Lyon, based on the 1965 novel "The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man" by Guy Owen.
 The movie has well-known character actors in supporting roles, including Jack Albertson, Slim Pickens, Strother Martin, Harry Morgan, and Albert Salmi.
Raw data, also known as primary data, is data (e.g., numbers, instrument readings, figures, etc.) collected from a source.
 If a scientist sets up a computerized thermometer which records the temperature of a chemical mixture in a test tube every minute, the list of temperature readings for every minute, as printed out on a spreadsheet or viewed on a computer screen is "raw data".
 Raw data has not been subjected to processing, "cleaning" by researchers to remove outliers, obvious instrument reading errors or data entry errors, or any analysis (e.g., determining central tendency aspects such as the average or median result).
 As well, raw data has not been subject to any other manipulation by a software program or a human researcher, analyst or technician.
 It is also referred to as "primary" data.
 Raw data is a relative term (see data), because even once raw data has been "cleaned" and processed by one team of researchers, another team may consider this processed data to be "raw data" for another stage of research.
 Raw data can be inputted to a computer program or used in manual procedures such as analyzing statistics from a survey.
 The term "raw data" can refer to the binary data on electronic storage devices, such as hard disk drives (also referred to as "low-level data").
"Loving Every Minute" is a song written by Michael White, Tom Shapiro and Monty Criswell, and recorded by American country music artist Mark Wills.
 It was released in April 2001 as the first single and title track from the album "Loving Every Minute".
 The song reached number 18 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
"There's a sucker born every minute" is a phrase closely associated with P. T. Barnum, an American showman of the mid-19th century, although there is no evidence that he said it.
 Early examples of its use are found instead among gamblers and confidence men.