R. J. Reynolds Jr.

Richard "Dick" Joshua Reynolds Jr.[1] (April 4, 1906 - Dec 14, 1964) was an American entrepreneur and the son of R.J. Reynolds, founder of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.[2][3]

Biography

Reynolds was an American businessman, politician, activist and philanthropist.

His political career included serving as treasurer of the National Democratic Party under President Roosevelt and as Mayor of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. As a businessman, he acted as President of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and was involved in creating Delta Air Lines. He was also a yachtsman, pilot, aviator, and philanthropist.[4]

Family life

Reynolds had four sons with his first wife, socialite Elizabeth McCaw Dillard: Richard Joshua Reynolds III (1933-1994), John Dillard Reynolds (1935-1990), Zachary Taylor Reynolds (1938-1979),[5][6][7] and William Neil Reynolds (1940-2009). From his second marriage to the Hollywood stage and movie actress, Marianne O'Brien, his sons were: the activist Patrick Reynolds, and Michael Randolph Reynolds (1947-2004).[1] His third marriage was to Muriel Marston Greenough, the younger sister of Anthony Heselton Marston, who was a major Canadian industrialist.[8] His first three marriages ended in divorce. His fourth marriage, in 1961, was to Dr. Annemarie Schmitt, a psychiatrist.[8]

Death

Reynolds was diagnosed with emphysema in 1960 and died four years later in Switzerland.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Schnakenberg, Heidi. Kid Carolina: R. J. Reynolds Jr., a Tobacco Fortune, and the Mysterious Death of a Southern Icon.
  2. ↑
  3. ↑ Gillespie, Michele. Katharine and R.J. Reynolds: Partners of Fortune in the Making of the New South (University of Georgia Press; 2012) 381 pages; dual biography of R.J. and his much younger wife (1880-1924)
  4. ↑ Patrick Reynolds; Tom Shachtman (1989), The Gilded Leaf: Triumph, Tragedy, and Tobacco: Three Generations of the R. J. Reynolds Family and Fortune, Boston: Little, Brown and Co.
  5. ↑ "The Tobacco King" Burge, David. Garage Magazine. April 2009.
  6. ↑ "iowahawk: The Cigarette City Flash". Iowahawk.typepad.com. 1979-09-04. Retrieved 2013-04-28.
  7. ↑ http://www.zachreynolds.com
  8. 1 2 R. J. Reynolds Jr., Tobacco Heir, Dies, New York City: The New York Times, 1964, retrieved 23 November 2014
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