Education
After graduating from high school, he enrolled in the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, where he studied electrical engineering.
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After graduating from high school, he enrolled in the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, where he studied electrical engineering.
He served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of American Telephone & Telegraph Company from 1972 to 1979. He received a bachelor"s degree in 1936. He served as President of Illinois Bell.
From 1972 to 1979, he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of American Telephone & Telegraph Company. He objected to the United States federal government"s antitrust efforts to break up American Telephone & Telegraph Company. In 1984, he was dismayed by the decision to break up the Bell System"s twenty-three operating companies.
He served as Chairman of The Business Council from 1977 to 1978. He resided in a family farm in Upperville, Virginia.
He died of a heart attack in Winchester, Virginia on December 18, 1986.
