Cargill MacMillan Jr. (March 29, 1927 – November 14, 2011) was an American billionaire businessman, a director of

Cargill Cargill, Incorporated, is a Privately held company, privately held American global food corporation based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, Minnetonka, Minnesota, and incorporated in Wilmington, Delaware. Founded in 1865, it is the largest privatel ...

Early life

He was born in

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on March 29, 1927, the eldest son of

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. a ...

(1900–1968) and Pauline Whitney (1900–1990). MacMillan served in the US Air Force and then graduated from

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in 1950.

Career

MacMillan worked at Cargill for 38 years, and retired in 1988. MacMillan is credited with designing the Cargill Office Center in

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, Minnesota. MacMillan served on the boards of

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, Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts,

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Minneapolis Institute of Arts The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) is an arts museum located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Home to more than 90,000 works of art representing 5,000 years of world history, Mia is one of the largest art museums in the United Stat ...

Macalester College Macalester College () is a private liberal arts college in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Founded in 1874, Macalester is exclusively an undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 2,174 students in the fall of 2018 from 50 U.S. states, four U.S t ...

, Greater Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce, United Way of the Minneapolis Area, the

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, Northwestern National Bank of Minneapolis, Community First Bank,

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, and the

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. In 1990, he moved to

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. He died at his home there on November 14, 2011 from complications of

Parkinson's disease Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a long-term degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that mainly affects the motor system. The symptoms usually emerge slowly, and as the disease worsens, non-motor symptoms becom ...

, with an estimated net worth of at $2.6 billion.

Personal life

MacMillan was survived by his wife, Donna, and their six children.

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