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Warren Edward Buffett (/ ˈ b ʌ f ɪ t / BUF-it; born August 30, 1930) [2] is an American investor and philanthropist who currently serves as the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.
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Doris Buffett (1928–2020), sister of Warren Buffett Ernest P. Buffett (1877–1946), American businessman, grandfather of Warren Buffett George D. Buffett (1928–2012), American politician, cousin of Warren Buffett
As a teenager, he worked at Buffett & Son, a grocery store owned by Warren Buffett's grandfather, Ernest P. Buffett. [3] [4] His grandfather, Thomas Charles Munger, was a state representative and later a U.S. district court judge appointed by Theodore Roosevelt. [5] He enrolled in the University of Michigan, where he studied mathematics. [6]
Buffett married Henrietta Duvall on March 21, 1898. They had 5 children, including Howard Buffett, a four-term member of the United States House of Representatives (1903–1964). [14] Buffett is the grandfather of famed American businessman and investor Warren Buffett. After Henrietta's death in 1921, Buffett married Belle Bailey in 1922. [15]
Susan Alice Buffett is an American philanthropist who is the daughter of Warren Buffett and Susan Thompson Buffett.Her charitable work has focused largely on the Sherwood Foundation and the Buffett Early Childhood Fund, organizations in Omaha that provide grants in public education, human services, and social justice in the interest of promoting the welfare of children from lower-income families.
The Buffet surname (renamed to Buffett) originates in France with a Huguenot weaver, named John Buffett, who became Buffett's first American Buffett ancestor when he immigrated to New York in the late-1600s. [1] Howard Buffett attended public schools and graduated from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1925.
They had a son, Howard Warren Buffett, who was born on October 14, 1983. Buffett currently resides in Decatur, Illinois , from where he oversees a 1,500-acre (6.1 km 2 ) family farm in Pana, Illinois , and three foundation-operated research farms, including over 1,500 acres in Arizona, and 9,200 acres in South Africa.