Background
Wyly, Charles Joseph was born on October 13, 1933 in Lake Providence, Louisiana, United States. Son of Charles Joseph and Flora (Evans) Wyly.
Wyly, Charles Joseph was born on October 13, 1933 in Lake Providence, Louisiana, United States. Son of Charles Joseph and Flora (Evans) Wyly.
Bachelor of Science, Louisiana Technology U., 1956.
This included $20 million to build a performing arts center in Dallas. In 2006, Forbes magazine estimated his Netto worth at $1 billion. Together the brothers had donated almost $2.5 million to more than two hundred Republican candidates and committees at the federal level over the past two decades.
Wyly was inducted into the Louisiana Technical University Athletic Hall of Fame in 2003.
He was a Bulldogs football player. Born during the Great Depression, Charles Wyly was a child when the collapsed economy forced the surrender of his family"s cotton farm in Lake Providence in East Carroll Parish in northeastern Louisiana.
During their lifetime, the Wyly brothers together gave more than ninety million dollars to a wide range of charities. The brothers denied the claims and were fighting the allegations.
Charles and Sam Wyly, according to a jury in New York City in 2013 in a civil trial, acted fraudulently by trying to hide assets which they controlled in four public companies that were sold for billions of dollars.
On Sunday, August 7, 2011, Wyly, who maintained a home in the rural town of Woody Creek in Roaring Fork Valley near Aspen, Colorado, was turning onto a highway near the local airport when his Porsche was hit by a sport utility vehicle according to the Colorado State Highway Patrol. Wyly died later at Aspen Valley Hospital.
Member President's Advisory Council on Management Improvement, 1970-1973. Vice-chairman Development Council Southern Methodist U. Foundation Science and Engineering, 1970-1971;Member Republican National Finance Committee, since 1970. Board of directors Dallas County United Way Fund.
President Dallas Theater Center., 1972-1979. Member American Management Association, Pi Kappa Alpha, Omicron Delta Kappa, Delta Sigma Pi, Beta Gamma Sigma.
Married Caroline Denmon. Children:Martha, Charles Joseph III, Emily, Jennifer.