Like I was inofrmed yesterday, Sam Walton is dead.
It’s his evil heirs.
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S. Robson Walton
Born October 28, 1944 (age 67)[1][2]
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Residence Bentonville, Arkansas[1]
Citizenship United States
Education University of Arkansas
Columbia University School of Law
Occupation Chairman of Wal-Mart
Known for Walton family fortune
Net worth Increase US $21 billion (est.)
(2011)[1]
Spouse(s) unknown (div.), 3 children[3]
Carolyn (div.), no children[4]
Parents Sam Walton, Helen Walton
Samuel Robson “Rob” Walton (born October 28, 1944)[5][1][2] is the eldest son of Helen Walton and Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer. He is currently (as of 2012) chairman of the worldwide company. According to Forbes, his net worth was $21 billion as of 9 March 2011.[1]
Walton attended The College of Wooster and graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1966 with a bachelor of science degree in business administration. He received a juris doctor degree in 1969 from the Columbia University School of Law in New York City. Walton is also a trustee at The College of Wooster.[3]
After graduation Walton became a member of the law firm which represented Wal-Mart; Conner and Winters in Tulsa, Oklahoma.[3] In 1978 he left Tulsa to join Wal-Mart as a senior vice president[3] and in 1982 he was appointed vice chairman.[6]
He was named chairman of the board of directors of Wal-Mart on April 7, 1992, two days after his father’s death, and still maintains that title.
(This poor reporting confused a bunch of FReepers.)
Rich people vote for Democrats. That’s the way it is.
Funny how the libs always trashed Walmart in the past now they are in bed with them figures.
Horrors! An EVIL UNGRATEFUL CHILD!
Walmart - a.k.a. majority China and Mexico importer
Yes, as you say Sam Walton is dead. Samuel Moore “Sam” Walton (March 29, 1918 – April 5, 1992) was an American businessman and entrepreneur born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma best known for founding the retailers Walmart and Sam’s Club.His son John assumed the mantle of President of WalMart and Sams Club in 1992.
John Walton died on June 27th, 2005 in an ultralight experimental aircraft accident*. He certainly would not have donated any money to the Obama campaign, he was a Vietnam Vet and a recipient of the Silver Star through serving with the Green Berets in Vietnam.
It is the evil heirs of the Waltons who are donating to an unamerican liberal fascist who is bent on destroying America, redistributing its wealth, redefining history ( minorities built Americas wealth), and resigning the policy we have of world wide peace, thereby bringing war to the entire world.
The great entrepreneur Sam Walton Jr. would have nothing to do with Obama if he were alive today, and would be one of Obama’s most outspoken critics.The thread article has a spin which is not based on true fact, and is nothing more than campaign spin fodder to show that Obama is taking the corporate dollar from Walmart which has a quid pro quo arrangement with the Obama administration, much as GE and MacDonalds do, in order to obtain waivers from Obamacare’s
punishingly arcane and retrograde requirements.
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*BENTONVILLE, Ark. - John Walton, the billionaire son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton and a member of the company’s board, died Monday in a plane crash in Wyoming.
Walton, 58, of Jackson, Wyo., was piloting an ultralight that crashed shortly after takeoff from the Jackson Hole Airport in Grand Teton National Park, the company said. He was pronounced dead at the scene, and the cause of the afternoon crash was not known, officials said.
The plane was an experimental ultralight aircraft with a small, gasoline-powered engine and wings wrapped in fabric similar to heavy-duty sail cloth, officials said.
In March, Forbes Magazine listed John Walton as No. 11 on its list of the world’s richest people with a net worth of $18.2 billion. He was tied with his brother Jim, one spot behind his bother Rob, and just ahead of his sister Alice and his mother Helen.
Walton joined the board of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in 1992, but did not work for the company.
“We’re sad that John Walton, who was well-known and much-loved in this valley, died doing something that he loved to do, which was fly aircraft,” said Joan Anzelmo, a spokeswoman for Grand Teton National Park.
“I saw parts of it,” she said of the plane. “I didn’t realize what I was seeing at first. It was so lightweight it looked like a giant model airplane.”
Anzelmo said officials notified the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board.
“Because this is a homemade, non-registered, experimental aircraft, at least today they told us there was not going to be an investigation,” she said. Grand Teton rangers will conduct their own probe, as is done with any major accident in the park, she said.
Wal-Mart spokeswoman Mona Williams said the company notified its employees worldwide of Walton’s death.
Walton was an Army veteran who served with the Green Berets as a medic during the Vietnam War. He was awarded the Silver Star for saving the lives of several members of his unit while under enemy fire, according to the company. He attended the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio, and served as a board member of the Walton Family Foundation.
The company said Walton pursued a variety of business interests including working as a crop duster in the 1970s and building boats in the 1980s. More recently, he had formed a holding company, True North, to oversee various business interests.
Walton is survived by his wife, Christy, and son, Luke; his mother, Helen; two brothers, Rob and Jim; and a sister, Alice.
Funeral arrangements were not immediately announced.
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