Dwayne Andreas was former CEO and chairman of Archer Daniels Midland.
19 Facts About Dwayne Andreas
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Dwayne Andreas grew up mostly in Iowa and worked at his father farm and later the family's feed and grain business.
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Dwayne Andreas attended Wheaton College in Illinois, but dropped out in his sophomore year after getting married.
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Dwayne Andreas then went to work for a modest, family-owned food-processing firm in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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When Cargill bought the Cedar Rapids facility in 1945, Dwayne Andreas joined the commodity firm, eventually becoming a vice president.
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Dwayne Andreas resigned from Cargill in 1952, and continued in the vegetable oil business, eventually as an executive of the Grain Terminal Association.
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In 1965 Dwayne Andreas purchased 100,000 shares of Archer Daniels for $3.3 million.
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Dwayne Andreas is credited with transforming the firm into an industrial powerhouse.
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Dwayne Andreas remained CEO until 1997, the year that Archer Daniels pleaded guilty to price-fixing and paid $100 million in fines.
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Michael was the anointed successor as Dwayne Andreas started to devolve his power.
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Dwayne Andreas served as an emissary for the Harry Truman administration and once secured a deal with President Juan Peron and wife Eva "Evita" Peron.
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Dwayne Andreas served as vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
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In 1986 Andreas agreed, at the request of retired Chief Justice Warren E Burger, to serve as head of the Foundation for the Commemoration of the United States Constitution which supported the work of the Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution.
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Dwayne Andreas is the namesake of Barry University's Dwayne O Andreas School of Law.
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Dwayne Andreas was one of the most prominent political campaign donors in the United States, having contributed millions of dollars to Democratic and Republican candidates alike.
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In 1972, Dwayne Andreas unlawfully contributed $25,000 to President Nixon's re-election campaign through the convicted Watergate burglar Bernard Barker.
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Dwayne Andreas was implicated in the financial scandal of the Orthodox Church in America for his donations to Russia in 1991.
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In 1935, at age 17, Dwayne Andreas married Bertha Benedict in Florida.
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Dwayne Andreas died on November 16,2016, in Decatur, Illinois, at the age of 98.