Jack C. Taylor

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Jack Crawford Taylor (born 1923) is an American businessman and the founder of the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company. With an estimated current net worth of around $14.0 billion, he is ranked by Forbes as the 19th-richest American and the 37th-richest person in the world.[1][2] During WWII, he piloted an F6F Hellcat fighter from the decks of the USS Essex and the USS Enterprise.[3]

[edit] Philanthropic Gifts

  • $40 million challenge gift to the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
  • $30 million gift to the Missouri Botanical Garden to fund global plant research (largest ever gift given to a U.S. botanical garden)
  • $25 million to establish the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Scholars Program at Washington University to support scholarships for minority and financially disadvantaged students

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ Forbes, Richest Americans
  2. ^ Forbes, The World's Billionaires'
  3. ^ My Washington 2003, A Man on a Mission


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