Stephen F. Keating (1918–2001) was an American technology executive. He served as President of

Honeywell Honeywell International Inc. is an American publicly traded, multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. It primarily operates in four areas of business: aerospace, building technologies, performance ma ...

from 1965 to 1974. He followed James H. Binger as President, which was an attempt to provide stability and continuity at Honeywell. A graduate of the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

and the University of Minnesota Law School, Keating also practiced law, served in the

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, and served as CEO of

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. He was also Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis from 1979 to 1981.

Influence

Keating was a member of the Minnesota Business Partnership, and provided leadership in The Urban Coalition.

References

Honeywell people Minnesota lawyers University of Minnesota alumni University of Minnesota Law School alumni 1918 births 2001 deaths 20th-century American lawyers American chief executives {{US-CEO-stub