Jack C. Taylor: Wikis

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Categories: American billionaires > American businesspeople > American philanthropists > Washington University in St. Louis alumni > Living people > 1923 births

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Jack Crawford Taylor (born 1923) is an American businessman and the founder of the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company. With an estimated current net worth of around $9.5 billion, he is ranked by Forbes as the 18th-richest American and the 40th-richest person in the world.^[1]^[2]

Taylor enrolled in Washington University's business school in 1940.^[3] During WWII, he piloted an F6F Hellcat fighter from the decks of the USS Essex and the USS Enterprise.^[3]

Philanthropic Gifts

$40 million challenge gift to the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
$30 million gift to the Missouri Botanical Garden to fund global plant research (largest ever gift given to a U.S. botanical garden)
$25 million to establish the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Scholars Program at Washington University in St. Louis to support scholarships for minority and financially disadvantaged students
$1 million gift to Ranken Technical College located in St. Louis, MO JUJU