Terrance Hanold (1912–1996) was an American attorney, food industry executive, and President of the

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. Hanold was an orphan from the age of four after his parents died in an unknown fire. He was then adopted and moved to a farm family in Illinois where descendants still live to this day as cattle farmers. Hanold was a graduate of the

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, the

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, and married to Ruth E. Hanold. He also practiced law in Minnesota and left his papers to the University of Minnesota archives. Upon becoming Pillsbury President in 1967, Hanold diversified the management structure of the company. He travelled the

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to tend to the large Pillsbury operation.

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