Richard Redwood (Red) Deupree (May 7, 1885 - March 14, 1974) was an American businessman, president of

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and chairman of its board. He was the first Procter & Gamble president, who was not a Procter or Gamble family member, and was recipient of the

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in 1959.

Life and work

Deupree was born in 1885 in

Norwood, Nelson County, Virginia Norwood is an unincorporated community in Nelson County, Virginia, Nelson County, Virginia, United States. It was among the communities severely affected by flash flooding from Hurricane Camille in 1969.Garnett P. Williams and Harold P. Guy. Erosi ...

to Richard Overton Deupree and Susan Elizabeth "Bettie" (Redwood) Deupree. His father descended from the Frenchman Thomas Du Pre, who in the early 1700s had settled in Virginia. After a public school in

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, Deupree started his career in industry as clerk at the South Covington Cincinnati Street Railway Company in 1901 at the age of 16. In 1905 he started his lifelong career at

, where he was its president from 1930 to 1948, and its chairman of the board from 1948 to 1959.''World Who's who in Commerce and Industry.'' Vol. 14, 1965. p. 332 In 1959 the

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and the

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awarded Deupree the annual

Selected publications

* Deupree, Richard Redwood. ''Management's Responsibilities to Employees. A Talk Before the Alumni Conference, Harvard Business School, Boston, Mass., June 12, 1948.'' Harvard University Press, 1948.

References

External links

Richard Redwood Deupree, University of Cincinnati
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