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Koch also pledged $10 million to renovate fountains outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [62] He was elected to the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2008. [63] Koch was the longest-serving trustee of the American Ballet Theatre, [60] serving on its board for 25 years [64] and contributing more than $6 million to the ...
[7] [12] David Koch died on August 23, 2019, and his heirs own the remaining 42% balance of the corporation. Charles Koch has stated that the company would go public "over my dead body" and that the company has used its freedom from the pressures of public markets to make long-term investments and concentrate on growth. [13] [14]
Fred Chase Koch (/ k oʊ k / KOHK; September 23, 1900 – November 17, 1967) was an American chemical engineer and entrepreneur who founded the oil refinery firm that later became Koch Industries, a privately held company which – under the principal ownership and leadership of Koch's sons Charles and David – would be listed by Forbes as the second-largest privately held company in the ...
Industrialist and active philanthropist David Koch died at prostate cancer at age 79 on August 23, 2019. David Koch, the 11th richest person in the world, leaves behind massive net worth Skip to ...
Billionaire industrialist David Koch, a driving force behind conglomerate Koch Industries who as one of the world's richest people became a major financier of conservative causes and political ...
Edward Irving Koch (/ k ɒ tʃ / KOTCH; [1] December 12, 1924 – February 1, 2013) was an American politician. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 1977 and was mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989. Koch was a lifelong Democrat who described himself as a "liberal with sanity". [2]
Pat Koch Thaler — the sister of beloved late New York City mayor Ed Koch — chose to take lethal medication amid a terminal cancer battle, picking Nov. 16 as her death date. She was 92. She was 92.
By 2019, Charles Koch and David Koch, commonly referred to as the Koch brothers, were the only ones of Fred Koch's four sons still with Koch Industries. [5] Charles and David Koch built a political network of libertarian and conservative donors, and the brothers funneled financial revenue into television and multi-media advertising.