Background
Charles F. Knight was born in 1936.
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Charles Knight
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Education
He graduated from Cornell University in 1957 and was elected to the Sphinx Head Society. He went onto earn his Master of Business Administration from Cornell in 1959.
Career
He is the chairman emeritus of Emerson Electric Company He served as Chairman of Emerson Electric from 1974 to 2004 and as Chief Executive Officer from 1973 to 2000. He also served as president from 1986 to 1988 and from 1995 to 1997 and was a director of Emerson from 1972 to 2004.
He has sat on the Boards of Directors of Anheuser-Busch Companies, Incorporated., American Telephone & Telegraph Company Incorporated., Boite Postale plc and Morgan Stanley.
He became a director of International Business Machines Corporation in 1993. Personal life A Republican, he has supported John Ashcroft, Bush Cheney "04, Rudy Giuliani, Roy Blunt, John McCain, Mitt Romney.
The Knight Executive Education & Conference Center at Washington University in Saint Louis is named for him, as is the Knight Emergency & Trauma Center, which serves as the main trauma center and emergency department for the Washington University Medical Center/Barnes-Jewish Hospital complex.
