William M. Ellinghaus
American business executive (1922–2022) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Maurice Ellinghaus (April 19, 1922 – January 4, 2022) was an American business executive who had served as the president and chief operating officer of the American multinational company AT&T. He was the president of the company during its breakup in the 1980s as a settlement to a United States Department of Justice led antitrust case United States v. AT&T. He also served in New York's Emergency Financial Control Board in the 1970s helping the city through a fiscal crisis and preventing a default.
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William M. Ellinghaus | |
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Born | William Maurice Ellinghaus (1922-04-19)April 19, 1922 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
Died | January 4, 2022(2022-01-04) (aged 99) Bronxville, New York, U.S. |
Occupation | Business executive |
Employer | AT&T |
Spouses | Erlaine Dietrich
(m. 1942; died 2008)Ruth Kelly Miller (m. 2010) |
Children | 8 |
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