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August Anheuser Busch III (born June 16, 1937) is a great-grandson of
Anheuser-Busch Anheuser-Busch Companies, LLC ( ) is an American brewing company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Since 2008, it has been wholly owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV (AB InBev), now the world's largest brewing company, which owns multiple ...
founder
Adolphus Busch Adolphus Busch (10 July 1839 – 10 October 1913) was the German-born co-founder of Anheuser-Busch with his father-in-law, Eberhard Anheuser. He introduced numerous innovations, building the success of the company in the late 19th and early 2 ...
and was the company's chairman until November 30, 2006. August Busch III is informally known as "Auggie" and as "The Third" or "Three Sticks" by subordinates and employees at Anheuser-Busch. He is the father of August Busch IV.


Early life

August Anheuser Busch III was born in
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on June 16, 1937. In 1956, he graduated from Ladue Horton Watkins High School.Dillon, D. (2005
''So Where'd You Go to High School?''
p. 187, vol. 2, Virginia Publishing.
He attended the
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, but dropped out after failing. His father then gave him an ultimatum, and he began working in an entry-level position in Anheuser Busch.


Career

August Busch III served as President of the
Anheuser-Busch Anheuser-Busch Companies, LLC ( ) is an American brewing company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Since 2008, it has been wholly owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV (AB InBev), now the world's largest brewing company, which owns multiple ...
Companies, Inc. (ABC) from 1974 until June 2002, and chief executive officer of ABC from 1975 until June 2002. He was chairman of the Board of Directors of ABC from 1977 to 2006. He was succeeded as the day-to-day operational head of Anheuser-Busch by Patrick Stokes. Stokes' tenure marked the first time in the history of the company that a non-Busch family member ran the day-to-day operations. Busch also conferred the chairmanship to Stokes effective December 1, 2006. He retired from his executive functions at the company on November 30, 2006. He has been a director of AT&T Inc. since October 1983. He served as a Director of Southwestern Bell Telephone Company from 1980 to 1983. The CEO of SBC/AT&T, Ed Whitacre, simultaneously served on the board of A-B. They were joined on both boards by Charlie Knight, the CEO of Emerson Electric. Whitacre also served on the board of Emerson. Busch voted to approve $115 million of pay for Whitacre in a five-year period. Busch is Chairman of the Anheuser-Busch Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee and a member of the Corporate Development Committee and the Executive Committee. As of 2007, Busch remains a Director of Emerson Electric Co.


Personal life

He has been married twice. He married first wife, Susan, in 1963. She is the mother of his two older children August Anheuser Busch IV and Susan Busch-Transou. The marriage ended in divorce in 1969. His second wife, Virginia, who is a practicing attorney, is the mother of his younger two children, Steven Busch and Virginia "Ginny" Busch. Unlike his father
Gussie Busch August Anheuser "Gussie" Busch Jr. (March 28, 1899 – September 29, 1989) was an American brewing magnate who built the Anheuser-Busch into the largest brewery in the world by 1957; he acted as company chairman from 1946 to 1975.Holian, T ...
, August III has been a lifelong supporter of the Republican Party, and a friend, ally, and financial supporter to Senator
John McCain John Sidney McCain III (August 29, 1936 – August 25, 2018) was an American statesman and United States Navy, naval officer who represented the Arizona, state of Arizona in United States Congress, Congress for over 35 years, first as ...
(R-AZ) and President
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. August III's eldest son, August A. Busch IV, is a strong supporter of Democratic Party politics, just like his grandfather Gussie. All four of his children are involved in the business functions of Anheuser-Busch to varying degrees: August IV was the president and CEO of the Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.; Susie Busch-Transou and her husband, Tripp, own Tri-Eagle Sales, a distributorship near
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; Steven Busch was his father's executive assistant and now owns Krey Distributing Company in St. Peters, Missouri; and Ginny Busch is employed by Busch Entertainment Company (BEC), working closely with A-B's
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and
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family theme park businesses. Both August A. Busch III and August A. Busch Jr. were inducted into the
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U.S. Business Hall of fame in 2005. August Anheuser Busch III was responsible for the donation of Mike IV, the live Bengal Tiger mascot of
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in 1976. Mike IV, originally Jerry, was born in 1974 at
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in
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,
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. He was LSU's mascot through the end of 1989 and died in 1995.


References

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