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| Name |
Jon Meade Huntsman |
| Birth |
21 Jun 1937 |
Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
19 Jun 1959 |
LANGE |
| FamilySearch ID |
KWHH-WGC |
| Death |
2 Feb 2018 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
| Burial |
10 Feb 2018 |
Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
| Headstones |
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| Person ID |
I98328 |
mytree |
| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Father |
Alonzo Blaine Huntsman, b. 5 Oct 1910, Fillmore, Millard, Utah, United States d. 23 Jun 1990, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 79 years) |
| Mother |
Sarah Kathleen Robison, b. 4 Dec 1910, Fillmore, Millard, Utah, United States d. 8 Apr 1969, Santa Clara, California, United States (Age 58 years) |
| Marriage |
10 May 1934 |
Fillmore, Millard, Utah, United States |
| Family ID |
F31219 |
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 | Birth - 21 Jun 1937 - Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States |
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 | Initiatory (LDS) - 19 Jun 1959 - LANGE |
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 | Death - 2 Feb 2018 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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 | Burial - 10 Feb 2018 - Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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- Obituary:
New York Times
By Cade Metz
Feb. 2, 2018
Jon Huntsman Sr., the son of a music teacher in the heart of the Idaho p o tato country who rose to become a billionaire industrialist and philant hr opist in Utah and the father of that state’s governor, died on Frida y a t his home in Salt Lake City. He was 80.
Gary Chapman, a spokesman for the Huntsman Corporation, the specialty ch e mical company where Mr. Huntsman was executive chairman, confirmed th e de ath but declined to give the cause. He had been ill for an extende d perio d of time.
In early 1970s, Mr. Huntsman built a packaging company that created ma n y of the first plastic plates, bowls and fast-food containers, includi n g the plastic “clamshell” that held McDonald’s Big Mac. After selling t h e company, he went on to found the Huntsman Corporation, an $8 billio n mu ltinational operation that produces chemicals used in everything fro m clo thing to automobiles.
He also served in the Nixon administration and in 1988 ran unsuccessful l y for governor in Utah.
But he became known as much for his philanthropy as for his business a n d political ambitions. In 1992, after both of his parents died of canc e r and he, too, battled the disease, he created the Huntsman Cancer Inst it ute at the University of Utah with a $10 million grant, and in the yea r s since, he and his family donated more than $1.4 billion to cancer res ea rch.
“He was a great entrepreneur and a real humanitarian,” said Patrick Byrn e , the chief executive and founder of Overstock.com, the online retaile r b ased in Salt Lake City, and a three-time cancer survivor. “He mad e a to n of money, and he gave it away while he was alive.”
Jon Meade Huntsman was born in 1937 in Blackfoot, Idaho. In an intervi e w with The New York Times in 1994, he remembered hearing stories abou t tw o of his great-great-grandfathers, who crossed the mountains with Br igha m Young on wagon trains in the 1840s and became businessmen in Utah . He w ould eventually make the same trip and join the highest echelons o f the C hurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but he took a more ci rcuitou s route.
After moving to Palo Alto, Calif., where, in junior high school, he me t h is future wife, Karen Haight, Mr. Huntsman won a scholarship from th e Cro wn Zellerbach paper company that sent him to the University of Penn sylvan ia and the Wharton School. But his future was in egg cartons, no t paper.
He joined an egg distribution company run by his wife’s uncle, and, a s h e once told The Times, he noticed that the cardboard cartons were pro ne t o leaks. So, he helped development a plastic carton. In 1965, the co mpan y was bought by Dow Chemical.
Mr. Huntsman’s ambitions were varied.
He spent time repackaging and selling music recordings on television und e r titles like “Greatest Hits of Rock & Roll.” And in 1970, he joined t h e Nixon administration, eventually serving as special assistant and sta f f secretary to the president. But by then, he had already started the H un tsman Container Corporation, which created the Big Mac clamshell in 19 74.
In 1982, he founded the Huntsman Chemical Corporation in Salt Lake Cit y . Then, after acquiring the worldwide operations of the Texaco Chemica l C ompany, the company evolved into the Huntsman Corporation.
Mr. Huntsman is survived by his wife, Karen, and eight children, 56 gran d children and 19 great-grandchildren. His daughter Kathleen died in 2010 .
His son Jon Huntsman Jr. was Utah’s governor from 2005 to 2009, ran fo r p resident in 2012 with financial backing from the elder Mr. Huntsman , an d is now the United States ambassador to Russia. In 2016, another so n, Pa ul, bought The Salt Lake Tribune, Utah’s largest daily paper, and n amed h is father chairman emeritus.
In an interview in 2014, The Tribune reported on Friday, Mr. Huntsman sa i d that he wanted his family to follow his lead.
“I would hope that our children and grandchildren and great-grandchildr e n would feel equally comfortable in public office or philanthropy,” h e sa id.
Fred Esplin, vice president for advancement at the University of Utah, w h o had known the elder Mr. Huntsman since the 1970s, said that Mr. Hunts ma n left “quite the legacy.”
“It is not the Kennedys,” he said. “But it is a dynasty.”
A version of this article appears in print on Feb. 4, 2018, Section A, P a ge 22 of the New York edition with the headline: Jon Huntsman Sr., 80 , Bi llionaire Philanthropist.
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