Timothy Mellon was born on July22,1942 and is an American businessman, the grandson of Andrew Mellon, and an heir to the Mellon banking fortune.
20 Facts About Timothy Mellon
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Timothy Mellon is a major donor to the Republican Party.
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Timothy Mellon attended the Fenn School in Boston, Massachusetts, and Milton Academy.
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Timothy Mellon graduated from Yale University in 1964 with a bachelor's degree in literature.
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Timothy Mellon then enrolled in Yale Law School but dropped out and instead obtained a degree in city planning from Yale.
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Timothy Mellon was the chief financier in the 1977 formation of Guilford Transportation Industries, a holding company named for his native Guilford, Connecticut.
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GTI, renamed Pan Am Railways in 2006, was ultimately sold to the CSX Corporation; the sale closed in June 2022, with the private owners paid $600million; Timothy Mellon owned the majority of the company.
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In 1999, Timothy Mellon purchased the Goodspeed Airport in East Haddam, Connecticut, for $2.33million.
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In 2002, Mellon stepped down as a trustee of the Andrew W Mellon Foundation after 21 years on its board.
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In July 2024, The New York Times reported that Timothy Mellon was responsible for the 2012 removal and subsequent 2013 return of the Narragansett Runestone.
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Timothy Mellon has been involved in a number of legal issues, often over relatively small dollar amounts.
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In 2012, Timothy Mellon donated over $1 million to The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, a nonprofit organization, to assist its efforts to find Amelia Earhart's plane and remains.
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Timothy Mellon claimed that the plane had been found in 2010, before he made his donation.
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Timothy Mellon appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, which affirmed the district court's ruling without holding oral argument.
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Timothy Mellon gave $227million to federal candidates and political committees from January 2020 through June 2024, nearly all of it to Republicans.
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In 2010, Timothy Mellon donated $1.5million to Arizona's defense fund to help cover the costs of legal challenges against Arizona SB1070, the broadest and strictest anti-illegal immigration measure in the US at the time of its passage.
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Between April 2023 and March 2024, Timothy Mellon donated $15million to MAGA Inc, a Trump super PAC.
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On May31,2024, the day after Trump was convicted of 34 felonies, Timothy Mellon gave MAGA Inc $50million, one of the largest disclosed donations ever.
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Timothy Mellon's self-published autobiography, announced in 2016, described his political views.
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Timothy Mellon calls social safety net programs "Slavery Redux", adding:.