Whitney MacMillan (September 25, 1929 – March 11, 2020) was an American billionaire heir and businessman.Brian Solomon
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Businessman Whitney MacMillan to receive honorary doctorate from MSU-Bozeman
Montana State University, March 26, 2002 He was the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of his family business, Cargill, from 1976 to 1995.

Early life

Whitney MacMillan was born on September 25, 1929. He was the son of Pauline Whitney and

Cargill MacMillan Sr Cargill MacMillan Sr. (October 10, 1900 - October 16, 1968) was an American business executive, serving as the President of Cargill in Minneapolis. Early life MacMillan was born on October 10, 1900. He was the second son of John H. MacMillan Sr. an ...

., and the great-grandson of

William Wallace Cargill William Wallace Cargill (December 15, 1844 – October 17, 1909) was an American businessman. In 1865, he founded Cargill, which by 2008 was the largest privately held corporation in the United States in terms of revenue, employing over 150, ...

, the founder of Cargill. He has one brother, Cargill MacMillan Jr. (1927–2011), and one sister,

Pauline MacMillan Keinath Pauline MacMillan Keinath (born July 31, 1934 in Hennepin County, Minnesota) is an American billionaire heiress. She is a great-granddaughter of William Wallace Cargill, the founder of Cargill, the largest private company in the US. Her father ...

.Mike Hughlett
Obituary: Cargill MacMillan, 84, company heir
'' The Star Tribune'', November 15, 2011 He graduated from

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Business

He was CEO of Cargill from 1976 to 1995, and the last family member to be CEO. During his tenure, Cargill's annual turnover went from $10 to $33 billion over ten years. By the 1980s, it became the world's largest grain company, outstripping its European rivals. He was a director of the Western NIS Enterprise Fund. He owned and ran a cow and calf ranch in Park, Sweet Grass, and Fergus counties in

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Philanthropy

He served on the board of directors of the

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, the

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, the

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, the

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at the

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, the Ruckelshaus Institute, the Burton K. Wheeler Center for Public Policy in Bozeman, Montana and Yale University's president's council on international activities. He served on the National Advisory Board of the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences board on agriculture and natural resources, the

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, Care International, Mayo Clinic and the Council on Foreign Relations.

The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, commonly known as the MacMillan Center, is a research and educational center for international affairs and area studies at Yale University. Academics As of 2021 ...

is named for him. In 2002, he received an honorary doctorate from Montana State University-Bozeman. He was an executive fellow and teacher at the

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Graduate School of Business in Minnesota. Together with the

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, he was restoring the ghost town of Judith Landing, Montana at the confluence of

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and Missouri River.

Personal life

He was married to Betty MacMillan. He lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As of August 2014, he was worth an estimated US$4.8 billion. He died on March 11, 2020, in

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, at the age of 90.

References

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