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For other persons named Jack Taylor, see Jack Taylor (disambiguation).
Jack Crawford Taylor (born 1923) is an American businessman and the founder of the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company. With an estimated current[update] net worth of around $14.0 billion, he is ranked by Forbes as the 19th-richest American and the 37th-richest person in the world.[1][2]
Taylor enrolled in Washington University's business school in 1940.[3] During WWII, he piloted an F6F Hellcat fighter from the decks of the USS Essex and the USS Enterprise.[4]
Philanthropic Gifts
- $40 million challenge gift to the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
- $30 million gift to the Missouri Botanical Garden to fund global plant research (largest ever gift given to a U.S. botanical garden)
- $25 million to establish the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Scholars Program at Washington University to support scholarships for minority and financially disadvantaged students
- $1 million gift to Ranken Technical College located in St. Louis, MO
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