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George Skakel (/ ˈskeɪ.kəl / SKAY-kel; July 16, 1892 – October 3, 1955) was an American businessman. He founded the Great Lakes Carbon Corporation (later to be part of SGL Carbon), and was the father of Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Robert F. Kennedy.
In 2013, Skakel was granted a new trial by a Connecticut judge who ruled that his counsel had been inadequate, and he was released on $1.2 million bail. On December 30, 2016, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled 4–3 to reinstate Skakel's conviction.
In 1938, George Skakel, a self-made millionaire and founder of the Great Lakes Carbon Corporation, paid Frances Simmons $160,000, a sum equal to about $2 million today, for a parcel of her...
George Skakel (/ ˈ s k eɪ. k ə l / SKAY-kel; July 16, 1892 – October 3, 1955) was an American businessman. He founded the Great Lakes Carbon Corporation (later to be part of SGL Carbon), and was the father of Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Robert F. Kennedy.
Her father, George Skakel, was a self-made multimillionaire who founded the Great Lakes Carbon Corporation; her mother, Ann, was a deeply religious homemaker. Ethel was first introduced to the...
The Skakel fortune goes back to Michael’s paternal grandparents, George and Ann Skakel, who died in 1957 in a plane crash, after George had built the Great Lakes Carbon Corporation into a...
It was the second air tragedy involving Mrs. Kennedy’s family. Ethel and George’s parents, George Skakel Sr., his wife. Ann Branack Skakel, and two pilots were killed in the crash of a Great Lakes Carbon Co. plane in 1955 in Oklahoma.
George Skakel was an American businessman and the founder of Great Lakes Carbon Corporation, currently part of SGL Carbon. Background. Skakel was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Grace Mary (Jordan) and James Curtis Skakel, who were of Dutch Protestant religion. Career.
UNION CITY, Okla., Oct. 4 (AP) -- George Skakel Sr. of Greenwich, Conn., chairman of the Great Lakes Carbon Corporation, was killed together with his wife in a plane crash last night.
George Skakel (July 16, 1892 – October 3, 1955) was an American businessman and the founder of Great Lakes Carbon Corporation, currently part of SGL Carbon. Early life and career.