R. J. Reynolds Jr.

Richard "Dick" Joshua Reynolds Jr.[1] (April 4, 1906 - Dec 14, 1964) was an American entrepreneur and the son of R.J. Reynolds, founder of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.[2][3]

R. J. Reynolds Jr.
Born
Richard Joshua Reynolds Jr.

(1906-04-04)April 4, 1906
DiedDecember 14, 1964(1964-12-14) (aged 58)
Switzerland

Biography

Reynolds was an American businessman, politician, activist and philanthropist.

His political career included serving as treasurer of the National Democratic Party under President Roosevelt and as Mayor of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. As a businessman, he did not work at R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company except as a young teenager. and was involved in creating Delta Air Lines. He was also a yachtsman, pilot, aviator, and philanthropist.[4]

Family life

Reynolds had four sons with his first wife, socialite Elizabeth McCaw Dillard: Richard Joshua Reynolds III (1933-1994), John Dillard Reynolds (1935-1990), Zachary Taylor Reynolds (1938-1979),[5][6][7] and William Neal Reynolds (1940-2009). From his second marriage to the Hollywood stage and movie actress, Marianne O'Brien, his sons were: the activist Patrick Reynolds, and Michael Randolph Reynolds (1947-2004).[1] His third marriage was to Muriel Marston Greenough, the younger sister of Anthony Heselton Marston, who was a major Canadian industrialist.[8] His first three marriages ended in divorce. His fourth marriage, in 1961, was to Dr. Annemarie Schmitt, a psychiatrist.[8]

Death

Reynolds was diagnosed with emphysema in 1960 and died four years later in Switzerland.

See also

References
  1. Schnakenberg, Heidi. Kid Carolina: R. J. Reynolds Jr., a Tobacco Fortune, and the Mysterious Death of a Southern Icon.
  3. Gillespie, Michele. Katharine and R.J. Reynolds: Partners of Fortune in the Making of the New South (University of Georgia Press; 2012) 381 pages; dual biography of R.J. and his much younger wife (1880-1924)
  4. Patrick Reynolds; Tom Shachtman (1989), The Gilded Leaf: Triumph, Tragedy, and Tobacco: Three Generations of the R. J. Reynolds Family and Fortune, Boston: Little, Brown and Co.
  5. "The Tobacco King" Burge, David. Garage Magazine. April 2009.
  6. "iowahawk: The Cigarette City Flash". Iowahawk.typepad.com. 1979-09-04. Retrieved 2013-04-28.
  7. http://www.zachreynolds.com
  8. R. J. Reynolds Jr., Tobacco Heir, Dies, New York City: The New York Times, 1964, retrieved 23 November 2014
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