Dean Victor White (May 25, 1923 – September 14, 2016) was an American billionaire businessman.
Early life
White was born in
Norfolk, Nebraska
Norfolk ( or ) is a city in Madison County, Nebraska, United States, 113 miles northwest of Omaha and 83 miles west of Sioux City at the intersection of U.S. Routes 81 and 275. The population was 24,210 at the 2010 census, making it the nint ...
on May 25, 1923, and grew up in
Crown Point, Indiana
Crown Point is a city in and the county seat of Lake County, Indiana, United States. The population was 33,899 at the 2020 census. The city was incorporated in 1868. On October 31, 1834, Solon Robinson and his family became the first settlers to ...
.
His father challenged him to "make a million dollars by your 40th birthday". White claimed that he'd "missed, at the most, 12 days of work since 1946."
Career
In 1946, he joined his father's
billboard
A billboard (also called a hoarding in the UK and many other parts of the world) is a large outdoor advertising structure (a billing board), typically found in high-traffic areas such as alongside busy roads. Billboards present large advertise ...
business, Whiteco Advertising Company, and took over in 1952. White sold the company to
Chancellor
Chancellor ( la, cancellarius) is a title of various official positions in the governments of many nations. The original chancellors were the of Roman courts of justice—ushers, who sat at the or lattice work screens of a basilica or law cou ...
for $960 million in 1998. As of September 2016, he had a net worth of $2.5 billion.
A major Republican donor, White donated $1 million to
American Crossroads
American Crossroads is a US Super PAC that raises funds from donors to advocate for certain candidates of the Republican Party. It has pioneered many of the new methods of fundraising opened up by the Supreme Court's ruling in ''Citizens United ...
in the
2012 United States presidential election
The 2012 United States presidential election was the 57th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 2012. Incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama and his running mate, incumbent Vice President Joe Biden, were re-el ...
. He supported numerous Indiana Republicans, including
Brian Bosma
Brian C. Bosma (born October 31, 1957) is an American politician and lawyer who served as speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives from 2004 to 2006 and 2010 to 2020. A member of the Republican Party, Bosma has served in the Indiana Hou ...
, and also donated money to the House Republican Campaign Committee of Indiana.
Personal life
He and his wife Barbara had four children, Bruce, Chris, Craig and Cindy.
Bruce White
Brigadier Sir Bruce Gordon White, KBE, FCGI, FICE, FIEE (1885-1983) was one of the leading British consulting engineers of his generation. Son of the engineer Robert White (1842-1925), Bruce White joined his father's practice in 1919 togeth ...
headed up
White Lodging
White Lodging Services Corporation is a privately held American hotel management company. As of 2022, it manages about 50 hotels.
White Lodging was founded in 1985 by Bruce W. White, who is the company's chairman. In January 2022, Jean-Luc Bar ...
and sat on the boards of the
University of Chicago Hospitals
The University of Chicago Medical Center (UChicago Medicine) is a nationally ranked academic medical center located in Hyde Park on the South Side of Chicago. It is the flagship campus for The University of Chicago Medicine system and was establis ...
and the
Indiana Economic Development Corporation
The Indiana Economic Development Corporation is a body corporate and politic (i.e., a public-private company) in Indiana that focuses on encouraging business to set up shop or expand their existing operations within the state with tax benefits, g ...
.
[ Dean White died on September 14, 2016 at the age of 93.Region billionaire Dean White dead at 93]
nwitimes.com; accessed September 15, 2016. The Dean and Barbara White Family Foundation has supported the Indiana State Museum.
[
]
See also
*List of billionaires
''The World's Billionaires'' is an annual ranking by documented net worth of the wealthiest billionaires in the world, compiled and published in March annually by the American business magazine ''Forbes''. The list was first published in March ...
References
External links
Forbes.com: Forbes World's Richest People
1923 births
2016 deaths
20th-century American businesspeople
American advertising executives
American billionaires
Indiana Republicans
People from Crown Point, Indiana
People from Norfolk, Nebraska
{{advertising-stub