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William Kistler Coors (August 11, 1916 – October 13, 2018) was an American brewery executive with the Coors Brewing Company. He was affiliated with the company for over 64 years, and was a board member from 1973 to 2003.
Adolph Coors is known to have had at least two siblings, a sister and a younger brother, William Kuhrs, who was born in Dortmund, Germany, in 1849. William followed his brother to America in 1870 and took the same respelling of the family name.
Coors was born on November 12, 1917, in Golden, Colorado, to Alice May Kistler (1885–1970) and Adolph Coors II. His two older brothers were Adolph Coors III, born in 1915, and William Coors, born in 1916. [citation needed] Coors attended Cornell University, where he graduated in 1939 with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering ...
Coors Connection: How Coors Family Philanthropy Undermines Democratic Pluralism (1990). Dansky, Eli. "Coors, Adolph" American National Biography (2003) online; Downard, William L. Dictionary of the History of the American Brewing and Distilling Industries (1980). Kostka, William. The Pre-Prohibition History of Adolph Coors Company 1873–1933 ...
According to William Coors, approximately 45 percent of applicants failed the polygraph testing, primarily with regards to questions over drug use. [15] Despite the company's claims, Coors became known throughout the LGBT community for its homophobic practices, and by 1973, the boycott had expanded to include members of that community. [16]
WASHINGTON — An elected member of a Virginia school board —who allegedly bragged about drinking Fireball and Coors Light in the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack and said he was in touch ...
Joseph Coors (1917–2003), grandson of Adolph Coors; Pete Coors (born 1946), great-grandson of Adolph Coors, chairman of the Molson Coors Brewing Company; William Coors (1916–2018), grandson of Adolph Coors, former president and chairman of the Coors Brewing Company; Holly Coors (1920–2009), American conservative political activist and ...
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