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Clarence Hungerford Mackay was born in San Francisco, California, on April 17, 1874.
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Clarence Hungerford Mackay was born in San Francisco, California, on April 17, 1874.
He was educated in Paris and London and entered business in 1894.
In 1897 Mackay became an officer of the Postal Telegraph Company, which his father had founded. The next year he also joined the Commercial Cables Company, organized by the elder Mackay in 1883. He managed them until the U. S. government took control during World War I. When they returned to private operation in 1919, Mackay resumed their management. In 1928 the Postal Telegraph with Commercial Cables and Mackay Radio and Telegraph Company, organized as the International Telephone and Telegraph Company, acquired control of the transoceanic radio station at Sayville, Long Island, N. Y. , and activities of Mackay's companies were greatly expanded. Mackay, however, gradually withdrew from active management.
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He was a leading Catholic layman.
Clarence Mackay and Katherine Duer Mackay fell in love and were married on May 17, 1898. Katherine left Clarence and her three children to run away with the doctor who had cured Clarence's throat cancer in 1910. The marriage officially ended in divorce in Paris in 1914. Katherine returned to New York in 1930, the same year she died from cancer. Anna Case would become Mackay's second wife. She was a lyric soprano who sang with the Metropolitan Opera and as a concert soloist.
