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Executive at family owned Tyson Foods
Don Tyson served as Senior Chairman of the Board from 1995 to 2001 when he retired and became a consultant to the Company. Mr. Tyson has been a member of the Board since 1952. Don Tyson became the company’s president in 1966, and was CEO and chairman from 1967 to 1991. He continued to serve on the board. During his time at the helm of Tyson Foods, Don Tyson was credited with bringing industrial scale to chicken farming. Annual revenue rose under his watch to more than $10 billion from about $50 million a year. Don Tyson and his family control a roughly 70% voting stake in Tyson Foods, according to the company’s latest proxy filing. Tyson in 2005 took heat over allegedly improper disclosures of his perks, including $464,132 for use of company houses in Cabo San Lucas and the English countryside by Don Tyson and his friends, and $204,000 in lawn maintenance and other housekeeping services provided by the company at Don Tyson’s homes. Tyson Foods agreed to settle the charges with the SEC in 2005. Donald John Tyson was born on April 21, 1930, in Olathe, Kan., to John and Helen Knoll Tyson. They settled in Springdale, Ark., and his father began hauling chickens from farms to markets in the Southeast and Midwest. The boy attended public schools and at 14 started working for his father. After graduating from Kemper Military School in Boonville, Mo., he enrolled at the University of Arkansas, but quit in his senior year in 1952 to join the business, which had added a hatchery and feed mill. In 1952, he married Twilla Jean Womochil. He is survived by his son, John; three daughters, Carla Tyson, Cheryl Tyson and Joslyn J. Caldwell-Tyson; and two grandchildren.
