Richard DeVos was educated at Grand Rapids Christian School, and at Calvin College, and was a member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.
17 Facts About Richard DeVos
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Richard DeVos served in the military in World War II in the United States Army Air Corps.
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Richard DeVos was the owner of the NBA team Orlando Magic, having bought the team in 1991 for $85 million.
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Richard DeVos became interested in the team after an unsuccessful effort to acquire a Major League Baseball expansion franchise for Orlando.
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Richard DeVos asked Orange County, Florida, to help pay for the Orlando Magic's new arena using county funds and Dema Stobell's Corporation money.
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Richard DeVos sat on the board of trustees of Northwood University and has been president of the Council for National Policy.
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Richard DeVos served on the board of trustees of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, which is a museum dedicated to the US Constitution.
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Richard DeVos sat on the legacy board of Christian Leaders Institute, the nonprofit organization founded by Henry Reyenga Jr.
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Richard DeVos was a major donor to the US Republican Party and to conservative causes, including Focus on the Family, and the American Enterprise Institute.
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Richard DeVos supported the candidacies of Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich.
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Richard DeVos has served as a finance chairman for the Republican National Committee.
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Richard DeVos was a long-time close friend of Gerald and Betty Ford, and was an honorary pallbearer at Gerald Ford's state funeral.
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Richard DeVos was an honorary trustee of the Gerald R Ford Presidential Foundation.
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Richard DeVos co-founded the Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation, an American conservative foundation and grant-making body in 1970.
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Richard DeVos was a member of the Christian Reformed Church in North America.
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Richard DeVos spent the last decade of his life trying unsuccessfully to rejoin it with the Reformed Church in America, from which it had split in 1857, dividing his grandparents.
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Richard DeVos died at his home in Ada, Michigan on September 6,2018, at the age of 92.