biography
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Kauffman, Ewing M(arion)
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known as Mr K
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| lived:
| (1916–93)
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| biography:
| Pharmaceutical executive and philanthropist, born near Garden City, Missouri, USA. After graduating from junior college, and serving four years in the navy, he founded Marion Laboratories (1950), a pharmaceutical firm made successful in part by his talented salesmanship. In 1989 it merged with Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals (a unit of Dow Chemicals Co) to become Marion Merrell Dow, Inc. In 1968 he became the first and sole owner of the Kansas City Royals, the American League baseball team. Together with his wife, he founded the Kauffman Foundation (1966), a $1 billion organization with two current foci: youth development programmes such as Project Choice (1988), which offers scholarships to vocational or college education for certain graduates of selected schools in Kansas City, MO, and Kansas; and the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (1992). Widely honoured, he received the Horatio Alger Award, the Southern Christian Leadership Award for his company's support of civil rights (1986), the Harry S Truman Good Neighbor Award, and was named one of President Bush's ‘1000 points of light’. |
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