biography
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Persons, Buck
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popular name of Wallace R Persons
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| male
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| lived:
| (1909– )
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| biography:
| Business executive, born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He worked his way through the sales hierarchy at Lincoln Electric Co, Cleveland (1934–53). As president, chairman and chief executive officer of Emerson Electric Co, St Louis (1954–74), he masterminded an acquisition programme that turned a manufacturer of fans into a technologically oriented conglomerate admired for its prudent management and high earnings. |
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