R. J. Reynolds Jr.

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R. J. Reynolds Jr.
Born
Richard Joshua Reynolds Jr.

(1906-04-04)April 4, 1906
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S.
DiedDecember 14, 1964(1964-12-14) (aged 58)
Lucerne, Switzerland

Richard Joshua Reynolds Jr.[1] (April 4, 1906 – December 14, 1964) was an American entrepreneur and the son of R.J. Reynolds, founder of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.[2][3]

Biography[]

Reynolds was an American businessman, politician, activist and philanthropist.

His political career included serving as treasurer of the National Democratic Party under President Roosevelt and as Mayor of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. As a businessman, he did not work at R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company except as a young teenager. and was involved in creating Delta Air Lines. He was also a yachtsman, pilot, aviator, and philanthropist.[4]

Reynolds purchased the Butler Island Plantation following the death of Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston.[5]

Family life[]

Reynolds had four sons with his first wife, socialite Elizabeth McCaw Dillard: Richard Joshua Reynolds III (1933–1994), John Dillard Reynolds (1935–1990), Zachary Taylor Reynolds (1938–1979),[6][7][8] and William Neal Reynolds (1940–2009). From his second marriage to the Hollywood stage and movie actress, Marianne O'Brien, his sons were: the activist Patrick Reynolds, and Michael Randolph Reynolds (1947–2004).[1] His third marriage was to Muriel Marston Greenough, the younger sister of Anthony Heselton Marston, who was a major Canadian industrialist.[9] His first three marriages ended in divorce. His fourth marriage, in 1961, was to Dr. Annemarie Schmitt, a psychiatrist.[9]

Death[]

Reynolds was diagnosed with emphysema in 1960 and died four years later in Switzerland.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Schnakenberg, Heidi. Kid Carolina: R. J. Reynolds Jr., a Tobacco Fortune, and the Mysterious Death of a Southern Icon.
  2. ^ *[1]
  3. ^ Gillespie, Michele. Katharine and R.J. Reynolds: Partners of Fortune in the Making of the New South (University of Georgia Press; 2012) 381 pages; dual biography of R.J. and his much younger wife (1880–1924)
  4. ^ Patrick Reynolds; Tom Shachtman (1989), The Gilded Leaf: Triumph, Tragedy, and Tobacco: Three Generations of the R. J. Reynolds Family and Fortune, Boston: Little, Brown and Co.
  5. ^ "Huston House at Butler Plantation". The Georgia Trust. November 7, 2018. Retrieved April 13, 2021.
  6. ^ "The Tobacco King" Burge, David. Garage Magazine. April 2009.
  7. ^ "iowahawk: The Cigarette City Flash". Iowahawk.typepad.com. September 4, 1979. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
  8. ^ http://www.zachreynolds.com
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b "R. J. Reynolds Jr., Tobacco Heir, Dies", The New York Times, New York City, 1964, retrieved November 23, 2014

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