Richard Redwood (Red) Deupree (May 7, 1885 -1974) was an American businessman, president of Procter & Gamble and chairman of its board. He was the first Procter or Gamble president, who was not a family member,[1] and was recipient of the Henry Laurence Gantt Medal in 1959.[2]
Live and work
Dupree was born in 1885 in Norwood, Nelson County, Virginia to Richard Overton Deupree and Susan Elizabeth (Redwood) Deupree. His father descended from the Frenchman William Du Pre, who in the early 1700s had settled in Virginia.[3]
After a public school in Covington, Kentucky, Deupree started his career in industry as clerk at the South Covington Cincinnati Street Railway Company in 1901 at the age of 16. In 1905 he started his lifelong career at Procter & Gamble, where he was its president from 1930 to 1948, and its chairman of the board from 1948 to 1959.[4]
In 1959 the American Management Association and the ASME awarded Deupree the annual Henry Laurence Gantt Medal.
Selected publications
- Deupree, Richard Redwood. Management's Responsibilities to Employees. A Talk Before the Alumni Conference, Harvard Business School, Boston, Mass., June 12, 1948. Harvard University Press, 1948.
References
- ↑ John Arthur Garraty, Mark Christopher Carnes, American National Biography: Park-Pushmataha. 1999. p. 894
- ↑ Soap, Cosmetics, Chemical Specialties, Vol. 34, 1958. p. 78
- ↑ Current Biography. H. W. Wilson Company, 1947. p. 146
- ↑ World Who's who in Commerce and Industry. Vol. 14, 1965. p. 332
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- 1929, Henry Laurence Gantt (posthumously)
- 1930, Fred J. Miller
- 1931, Leon Pratt Alford
- 1932, Henry S. Dennison
- 1933, Henry Wallace Clark
- 1934, Horace B. Cheney
- 1935, Arthur Howland Young
- 1936, Morris E. Leeds
- 1940, William Loren Batt
- 1941, Paul Eugene Holden
- 1943, Dexter S. Kimball
- 1944, Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. (posthumously) and Lillian Moller Gilbreth
- 1945, John Milton Hancock
- 1946, Paul G. Hoffman
- 1947, Alvin E. Dodd
- 1948, Harold Fowler McCormick
- 1949, Arthur Clinton Spurr
- 1950, Charles R. Hook Sr.
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- 1951, Thomas Roy Jones
- 1952, Frank Henry Neely
- 1953, Thomas E. Millsop
- 1954, Clarence Francis
- 1955, Walker Lee Cisler
- 1956, Henning Webb Prentis Jr.
- 1957, Harold F. Smiddy
- 1958, Richard Redwood Deupree
- 1959, Peter F. Drucker
- 1960, Charles Perry McCormick
- 1961, Lyndall Urwick
- 1962, Austin J. Tobin
- 1963, Lawrence A. Appley
- 1964, Harold Bright Maynard
- 1965, Ralph J. Cordiner
- 1968, J. Erik Jonsson
- 1969, David Packard
- 1970, Frederick R. Kappel
- 1971, Donald C. Burnham
- 1972, Robert Elton Brooker
- 1973, John T. Connor
- 1974, Willard Rockwell
- 1975, Patrick E. Haggerty
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