Edmund Wattis Littlefield
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Edmund Wattis Littlefield (1914–2001) was a prominent California businessman, philanthropist, and member of the Bohemian Club.
Biography
Littlefield was the grandson of
MBA in 1938 from Stanford University
. During World War II, he served as an officer in the U.S. Navy and an analyst on petroleum supplies for the war effort.
In 1951, Littlefield returned to Utah Construction Company as the vice president of finance. He became the general manager and principal officer of Utah Construction Company in 1958. Under his leadership, Utah Construction Company became the most profitable mining and land development company in the United States in the 1960s, and in 1976 merged with
GE stock gave Littlefield a ranking on the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans with a net worth of $2.3 billion in 2001.[1]
Littlefield served on the boards of some of the largest corporations in America, including
Daniel J. Levitin, who worked as his executive assistant in the 1980s, in his book The Organized Mind
.
As a
philanthropist, Littlefield financially supported [quantify] the building of the Edmund W. Littlefield Center, which houses the Stanford
Business School faculty and classrooms.
Awards and honors
In 1997 the
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation awarded Littlefield its Lone Sailor Award
for his naval service.
References
- ^ Littlefield – Forbes Listing
- ^ The Business Council, Official website, Background Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
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