Uncas A. Whitaker
Businessperson, Deceased Person
1900 – 1975
Who was Uncas A. Whitaker?
Uncas Aeneas Whitaker was raised in Missouri. He was a prominent mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, lawyer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He received a mechanical engineering degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an electrical engineering degree from Carnegie Institute of Technology and a law degree from the Cleveland Law School. At the age of 41, he founded Aircraft-Marine Products, AMP Incorporated, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, which would become the world's largest manufacturer of electrical devices and connectors. His company was instrumental in the development of miniature components and advanced computer technologies which have been incorporated into literally thousands of business operations and commercial products.
When Whitaker died in 1975, he left part of his fortune for a foundation to improve people's lives primarily by supporting Biomedical engineering research and education. Money provided for the Whitaker Foundation by Whitaker and his wife, Helen Whitaker, totaled $120 million. In 1994, the foundation was the sixty-first largest foundation in the United States with assets of $340 million and annual expenditures of $26 million.
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- Born
- Mar 22, 1900
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Lived in
- Kansas
- Missouri
- Harrisburg
- Died
- 1975
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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