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Robert Henry Winborne Welch Jr. (December 1, 1899 – January 6, 1985) was an American businessman, political organizer, and conspiracy theorist. [1] He was wealthy following his retirement from the candy business and used his wealth to sponsor anti-communist causes.
The John Birch Society was established on December 9, 1958, [70] in Indianapolis, Indiana, at the conclusion of a two-day session of a group of 12 people led by Robert W. Welch Jr. Welch was a retired candy manufacturer from Belmont, Massachusetts, who had been a state Republican Party official and had unsuccessfully run in its 1950 lieutenant ...
The John Birch Society, a right-wing, anti-Communist society, was established at a meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, at the conclusion of a two-day session of 12 people led by Robert W. Welch Jr. [44] The eponym of the group, John M. Birch, had been a U.S. Army Air Forces captain whom Chinese Communists had killed in 1945 and had become the ...
Robert Welch (Wisconsin politician) (born 1958), Wisconsin politician; Robert Welch or Robert Fuller, American wrestler; Robert Anthony Welch (1947–2013), Irish author and scholar; Robert Alonzo Welch (1872–1952), American industrialist and founder of the Robert A. Welch Foundation for chemistry research in Texas
Jack Welch, the legendary long-time chief executive of General Electric, died on Mar. 1, 2020, almost two decades after he left the company. His corporate legacy died at GE’s recent Investor Day ...
Welch won the 1995 special election to fill the remainder of his term. He was subsequently elected to a full term in 1996 and 2000. He was subsequently elected to a full term in 1996 and 2000. In 2004, he again deferred re-election for an attempt at election to the United States Senate, but came in a distant 3rd in the Republican primary.
Viral internet star Hailey Welch throws out a ceremonial first pitch before a game between the New York Mets and the Oakland Athletics at Citi Field on Aug. 15, 2024.
Retired CEO and Chairman of General Electric Jack Welch speaks to students at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts April 12, 2005.