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Owen Young | |
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Born | Stark, New York, U.S. | October 27, 1874
Died | July 11, 1962 St. Augustine, Florida, U.S. | (aged 87)
Education | St. Lawrence University (BA) Boston University (LLB) |
Political party | Democratic |
Owen D. Young (October 27, 1874 – July 11, 1962) was an American industrialist, businessman, lawyer and diplomat at the Second Reparations Conference (SRC) in 1929, as a member of the German Reparations International Commission.[1]
He is known for the plan to settle Germany's World War I reparations, known as the Young Plan and for the creation of the Radio Corporation of America. Young founded RCA as a subsidiary of General Electric in 1919; he became its first chairman and continued in that position until 1929. RCA was divested in 1932 and liquidated by GE in 1986.