1. John Stephen Bugas was the second in command at Ford Motor Company during the presidency and chairmanship reign of Henry Ford II.
32 Facts About John Bugas
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The parents of Jack Bugas, Andrew P Bugas was born on in 1867 and and Helena L Bugas, were both born in eastern Slovakia, in the village Lucina near Presov.
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Andrew Bugas immigrated to the United States in 1882 and became a naturalized US citizen at age 26 in 1891.
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In 1901, Andrew John Bugas was elected to the Wyoming State Legislature and served six terms until 1907.
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Andrew and Helena John Bugas married in 1902 and from 1903 to 1929 had a total of eight sons and two daughters.
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Jack John Bugas was born in 1908 in Rock Springs, Wyoming.
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When Jack John Bugas was in his early teens, his father's debts forced the family to mortgage the Eagle's Nest.
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John Bugas had a favorite story about ranch life in Wyoming:.
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John Bugas claimed that as a child he would punch cows for entertainment.
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John Bugas was known in the bureau as "an 'agent's agent-in-charge,' a man all like to work for", always leading his men personally on important cases.
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In 1944, Jack John Bugas left public service to join Ford Motor Company.
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When 28-year-old Ford II was selected by his grandfather in 1945 to succeed him as president of Ford, John Bugas was immediately put in charge of taking control of the company from Harry Bennett's entrenched gangster element in management, and of ousting Bennett.
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When John Bugas fired Bennett in his office, Bennett called John Bugas a "son of a bitch" and drew a loaded.
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John Bugas helped restructure and revitalize the struggling company, which faced considerable financial and strategic challenges transitioning from military manufacturing to a peacetime economy, and by 1956 make it a publicly traded corporation.
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John Bugas even came to play a role in car design at Ford, most notably of the Cortina.
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At Ford, John Bugas held various vice president titles, as well as consulted directly with Henry Ford.
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John Bugas served as a member of the board of directors starting in 1950.
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Surprisingly, Robert McNamara was chosen over John Bugas, who "believed he would have little competition in his rise to the top of the company".
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John Bugas never knew that Ford II had discussed the matter of his appointment to the presidency with Goldman Sachs head Sidney Weinberg, who talked Ford II out of it.
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John Bugas moved into an office in the Standard Oil of Indiana Building and worked on oil leases for a partnership he had with Marathon Oil Company and Max Fisher, a Forbes 400 member with whom he had been investing in Wyoming oil wells since the 1950s.
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John Bugas became more deeply involved in the management of his vast Wyoming cattle ranches.
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John Bugas would spend his time there riding, fishing, and hunting amidst the ranch's twelve-thousand foot mountain peaks, canyons, waterfalls, and rivers.
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John Bugas had a strong belief that his ranchland "ought to have fewer elk and more cattle", and fought for restrictions on private development there.
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John Bugas was an expert rider as well as marksman in all sizes of firearms.
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John Bugas was an avid mountain game hunter as well as wingshooter.
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John Bugas was a significant patron of the University of Wyoming, the Whitney Western Art Museum, and Cranbrook Kingswood, as well as a major Republican Party supporter.
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John Bugas was the recipient of many awards, ranging from Automotive Executive of the Year to the Anti-Defamation League's Human Relations Award.
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John Bugas was director of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, making many public appearances in support of the conference.
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John Bugas was married to Margaret Stowe McCarty, with whom he had three daughters and a son, until her death in 1972.
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John Bugas died in 1982, at the age of 74, at St Joseph Mercy Hospital a week after undergoing heart bypass surgery.
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John Bugas led the fight at Ford in 1949 against Walter Reuther's demands for noncontributory pensions for United Auto Workers members by posing the practical argument that increased costs of production cannot simply be passed on to the consumer in the form of higher prices.
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In discussing union demands for guaranteed annual wages, John Bugas again invoked his practical business logic:.