Edwin W. Rice co-founded General Electric with the first President of General Electric, born on what day?
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Edwin W. Rice Edwin Wilbur Rice, Jr. (6 May 1862 in La Crosse, Wisconsin – 25 November 1935 in Schenectady, New York) was a president and considered one of the three fathers of General Electric (along with Elihu Thomson and Charles A. Coffin).
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Charles A. Coffin Charles Albert Coffin (31 December 1844 – 14 July 1926) was the cofounder and first President of General Electric corporation.
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Benjamin Franklin Fairless Benjamin Franklin Fairless (May 3, 1890 — January 1, 1962) was an American steel company executive. He was president of a wide range of steel companies during a turbulent and formative period in the American steel industry. His roles included President of Central Alloy Steel from 1928 to 1930; First Vice President of Republic Steel (which had absorbed Central Steel) from 1930 to 1935; President of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Company from 1935 to 1938; and then President, and later Chairman of the board of directors and Chief Executive Officer of U.S. Steel (the largest steel company in the United States) from 1938 to 1955.
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John Jay Hopkins John Jay Hopkins (October 15, 1893 – May 3, 1957) was founder and president of General Dynamics from 1952 to 1957.
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George D. Edwards George DeForest Edwards (1890 – 1974) was a 20th-century quality control expert most notable for having served as the first president of American Society for Quality Control.
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Inauguration of James A. Garfield The inauguration of James A. Garfield as the 20th President of the United States was held on Friday, March 4, 1881. The inauguration marked the commencement of James A. Garfield's only term as President and Chester A. Arthur's only term as Vice President. Garfield died days into this term, and Arthur succeeded to the presidency. Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite administered the Oath of office.
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Ernest L. Daman Ernest Ludwig Daman (born March 14, 1923) is a German/American mechanical engineer, inventor, and business executive, who was Senior Vice President of Foster Wheeler Corporation. He is known as president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in the year 1988-89.
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Carl Friden Carl Friden (April 11, 1891 – April 29, 1945) was the Swedish born, American mechanical engineer and businessman who founded the Friden Calculating Machine Company (Friden, Inc.).
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt ( , his own pronunciation, or ; January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. A Democrat, he won a record four presidential elections and emerged as a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century. He directed the United States government during most of the Great Depression and World War II. As a dominant leader of his party, he built the New Deal Coalition, realigning American politics into the Fifth Party System and defining American liberalism throughout the middle third of the 20th century. He is often rated by scholars as one of the three greatest U.S. Presidents, along with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
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John DeLorean John Zachary DeLorean (January 6, 1925 – March 19, 2005) was an American engineer and executive in the U.S. automobile industry, widely known for his work at General Motors and as founder of the DeLorean Motor Company.
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George F. Morrison George Francis Morrison (1867–1943), was an American business executive, industrialist, Edison Pioneer, and a Director and Vice President of General Electric Company. He was one of Thomas Edison's closest associates and a pioneer in the production of the incandescent lamp, having held a number of patents including that of filament manufacture. Towards the latter part of his decades-long career, Morrison traveled the world introducing the lamp and promoting its use.
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Jack Welch John Francis "Jack" Welch Jr. (born November 19, 1935) is an American retired business executive, author, and chemical engineer. He was chairman and CEO of General Electric between 1981 and 2001. During his tenure at GE, the company's value rose 4,000%. In 2006, Welch's net worth was estimated at $720 million. When he retired from GE he received a severance payment of $417 million, the largest such payment in history.
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Edwin Binney Edwin Binney (November 24, 1866 – December 17, 1934) was an American entrepreneur and inventor, who created the first dustless white chalk, and along with his cousin C. Harold Smith (born London, 1860 - died, 1931), was the founder of handicrafts company 'Binney and Smith, which marketed his invention of the Crayola crayon.
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Mark C. Honeywell Mark Charles Honeywell (December 29, 1874 – September 13, 1964) was an American electronics industrialist. He founded the eponymous Honeywell, Incorporated and was its first president and CEO (1927–1933).
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George Herbert Harries George Herbert Harries (September 19, 1860 – September 29, 1934) was a major general in the United States Army. He served as president of a number of American industrial corporations, including the Metropolitan Railroad Corporation, Washington, the Washington Railway and Electric Company, H. M. Byllesby and Company, Louisville Gas and Electric Company, and the Fargo and Moorhead Street Railroad Company.
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Harold M. Stratton Harold Meade Stratton (November 12, 1879 – March 14, 1962), a.k.a. Harry Stratton, was an American engineer and businessman, he was president of the Stratton Grain Company, as well as co-founder and chairman of the Briggs & Stratton engine manufacturers.
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Arthur E. Kennelly Arthur Edwin Kennelly (December 17, 1861 – June 18, 1939), was an Irish-American electrical engineer.
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J. Edgar Hoover John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972), better known as J. Edgar Hoover, was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. He was appointed as the fifth director of the Bureau of Investigation — the FBI's predecessor — in 1924 and was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972 at the age of 77. Hoover has been credited with building the FBI into a larger crime-fighting agency than it was at its inception and with instituting a number of modernizations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories.
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Edwin &quot;Pa&quot; Watson Edwin Martin "Pa" Watson (10 December 1883 – 20 February 1945) was a United States Army Major General, friend and a senior aide to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, serving both as a military advisor and Appointments secretary (a role that is now encompassed under the duties of the modern-day White House Chief of Staff).
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Nevin E. Funk Nevin Elwell Funk (November 4, 1883 – April, 1973) was an American electrical engineer, vice president engineering at the Philadelphia Electric Company, now PECO Energy Company. He is known as president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in 1943-44, and recipient of 1952 ASME Medal.
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Henry Ford II Henry Ford II (September 4, 1917 – September 29, 1987), sometimes known as "HF2" or "Hank the Deuce", was the eldest son of Edsel Ford and eldest grandson of Henry Ford. He was president of the Ford Motor Company from 1945 to 1960, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) and chairman for several months thereafter. Notably, under the leadership of Henry Ford II, Ford Motor Company became a publicly traded corporation in 1956. From 1943 to 1950, he also served as president of the Ford Foundation.
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Emlen Roosevelt William Emlen Roosevelt (April 30, 1857 – May 15, 1930) was a prominent New York City banker who held a wide range of positions in numerous organizations and was a cousin of United States President Theodore Roosevelt. He was president of Roosevelt & Son, the banking firm founded by his father James Alfred Roosevelt.