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Chairman of the Board, Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
Elected to the board May 9, 1996. Previously served May 11, 1974 to January 3, 1986.
Parents: Father, Howard H. Buffett, investment banker and Congressman from Nebraska, Second District, 1943 to 1949 and 1951 to 1953 Mother, Leila Stahl Buffett
Date of Birth: August 30, 1930 in Omaha, Nebraska
Married: April 1952 to Susan Thompson (died July 2004); August 2006 to Astrid Menks
Children: Susan, Howard, Peter
Education:
Woodrow Wilson High School, Washington, D.C., graduated in 1947
Wharton School of Finance at University of Pennsylvania, 1947-1949
B.S. University of Nebraska 1950
M.S. in Economics, Columbia University in 1951. (Benjamin Graham was one of his professors at Columbia.)
Employment:
1951-1954
Buffett-Falk & Co., Omaha - Investment Salesman
1954-1956
Graham-Newman Corp., New York (Investment Company) - Securities Analyst
1956-1969
Buffett Partnership, Ltd. and predecessor limited partnerships (private investment partnership) - General Partner
1970-Present
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., a company that was controlled by Buffett Partnership, Ltd. from 1965. Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s business activities include underwriting of property and casualty insurance, candy production and sales at retail, newspaper publishing, retailing of home furnishings, sales of encyclopedias, sales of home cleaning units, manufacture and distribution of uniforms, retail jewelry, and manufacture, import and distribution of footwear.
Other Business Activities:
Director of The Washington Post Company
Civic Activities: Life Trustee, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
Life Trustee, The Urban Institute
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