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  Howard Buffett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Buffett attended public schools and graduated from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1925.
While a student, Buffett was a brother of the Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity.
Buffett is remembered for his highly libertarian stance, having maintained a friendship with Murray Rothbard for a number of years.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Howard_Buffett   (247 words)

  
 Lakes Art Center
Buffett's interest in photography started almost 20 years ago on his family's farm.
From the wild animals on the farm to more exotic animals in Africa, he became increasingly intrigued with photography and began to travel to all parts of the world to capture images of big cats and other beautiful creatures.
Buffett has photographed people around the globe, and in the process has broadened his view of humanity.
www.lakesart.org /managed/visual-HowardBuffett.html   (117 words)

  
 Special Feature, April 29, 1999: Berkshire and Buffett
Buffett Partnership bought some shares in the New Bedford, Massachusetts-based textile mill in 1962 when its stock dropped under $8 a share (it had $16.50 a share in working capital) and then acquired control of the company in 1965.
Buffett hung on to the company's mills despite the industry's decline and redeployed its capital into a wide range of businesses (see table) before finally selling the yarn mill.
Buffett's tenacious grip on stability and constancy is reflected in his friendships, such as his longtime collaboration with Charlie Munger and his relationship with his wife Susie.
www.fool.com /specials/1999/sp990429Berkshire002.htm   (1398 words)

  
 Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett's father, Howard Buffett, was a stockbroker, a Republican, and a U.S. Congressman who consistently spoke and voted against what he called President Roosevelt's "big government" plans.
Buffett and his wife Susan were married more than 50 years, but it was not a typical marriage.
Buffett is believed to be the second or third wealthiest man in the world, and still lives in the house he bought for $31,000 in 1958.
www.nndb.com /people/445/000022379   (784 words)

  
 Warren Buffett - Salon
Warren Edward Buffett was born in Omaha in 1930, the son of Howard Buffett, a stockbroker and Republican congressman.
Buffett, always on the lookout for values, went on a shopping spree, filling his portfolio with solid companies that began to rise once the market regained its footing.
Buffett claims to have chosen a successor, but he has told neither the public nor his anointed.
dir.salon.com /story/people/bc/1999/08/31/buffett/index.html?pn=2   (1219 words)

  
 Obituary: Susan T. Buffett / Wife of billionaire investor Warren Buffett   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Susan T. Buffett, the wife of billionaire investor Warren Buffett and a director in his company, died yesterday of a stroke while visiting friends in Cody, Wyo. She was 72.
Buffett, the world's second-richest man and chairman of Omaha-based Berkshire Hathaway Inc., was with his wife when she died, the company said.
Buffett, 73, had earlier said his stock in Berkshire, worth about $41 billion, would go to his wife upon his death and then to the Buffett Foundation, which two years ago gave millions of dollars to Planned Parenthood organizations around the country.
www.postgazette.com /pg/04212/353968.stm   (616 words)

  
 Buffettimages
Buffett serves or has served on the National Geographic Council of Advisors, World Wildlife Fund National Council, the Cougar Fund, Platte River Whooping Crane Trust Advisory Committee, Illinois and Nebraska Chapters of the Nature Conservancy, Ecotrust, Africa Foundation and the Nature Conservation Trust.
Buffett has served in elected office in Nebraska, on several United States Trade Representative Advisory Committees and as Chairman of the Nebraska Ethanol Board.
Buffett founded the Nature Conservation Trust, a non-profit Trust in South Africa to support cheetah conservation and research, founded the International Cheetah Conservation Foundation to increase resources available for cheetah conservation and helped establish the Cougar Fund, an organization created to help preserve North America's greatest cat, the mountain lion.
www.buffettimages.com /AboutAuthor.htm   (508 words)

  
 Best of David Morgan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Representative Howard Buffett, father of Wall Street legend Warren Buffett, was too far ahead of his time, so few listened to the concerns and even fewer appreciated his wisdom when he addressed a group of businessmen on May 4, 1948.
Buffett recognized this reckless tendency to be a political fact of life, with predictable and discouraging results if left uncontrolled.
Buffett asked for his silver to be returned in the middle of 2003, just about the time I see this market beginning a major move to the upside.
www.investmentrarities.com /bestofdm02-04-03.htm   (1031 words)

  
 Warren Buffet's Kids Living in Midwest Likely to Follow Dad's Lead
Buffett made his commitment to give away 12,050,000 Class B shares of Berkshire Hathaway stock to the foundations official yesterday in New York by handing letters to representatives of all five foundations.
Howard Buffett, 51, farms 840 acres near Decatur, and he said he may support research to create crops resistant to disease and drought.
Buffett said he plans to earmark 10 million B shares for the Gates Foundation, 1 million B shares for the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation and 350,000 shares for each of the three foundations run by his children.
www.insurancejournal.com /news/midwest/2006/06/28/69921.htm?print=1   (602 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Susan Buffett, wife of Berkshire chair, dies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Susan Buffett, the wife of billionaire investor and Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett, died of a stroke while the two were visiting friends in Cody, Wyo., the company said Thursday.
Susan Buffett was actively involved in charities and causes such as civil rights, abortion rights and population control.
Howard Buffett is on Berkshire's board of directors and runs a photography and publishing company, and Peter is a musician.
www.usatoday.com /money/companies/2004-07-29-susan-buffett-obit_x.htm   (409 words)

  
 Buffett — folksy style, brainy investing - U.S. Business - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Buffett, 75, was born in Omaha, Neb., to stockbroker Howard Buffett, who went on to serve several terms in Congress, and his wife, Leila.
Buffett eventually went to work for Graham before returning to Omaha in 1956 and forming his first investment partnership, which delivered outsize gains for the family members and friends who entrusted their money to him.
Buffett's annual letter to shareholders also is considered a classic of the genre and is eagerly awaited by acolytes who pore through it for tips on what to buy next.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/13562374   (768 words)

  
 The Old Cause by Joseph Stromberg
oward Homan Buffett was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1903 and died in 1964.
Buffett and Rothbard corresponded for years, became friends, and commiserated with one another over the drift toward war, imperialism, and centralization, which was aided and abetted by the current leadership of the American right wing.
Buffett was primed to question the emergent Cold War at a time when the hot war, World War II, had just ended, and many of the wartime controls he hated were still in force.
www.antiwar.com /stromberg/s042401.html   (1468 words)

  
 USC Events Calendar - Howard Buffett
Buffett, the son of industrialist Warren Buffett, is currently the chairman of Lindsay Manufacturing, a worldwide leader in the manufacturing of agricultural irrigation products.
He also serves as president of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation; operates BioImages, a photography and publishing company; and is president of Buffett Farms, an 840-acre family farm in central Illinois and a 400-acre farm in Eastern Nebraska.
Buffett is currently on the boards of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc., ConAgra Foods, and Sloan Implement and is also a member of the Commission on Presidential Debates.
www.usc.edu /calendar/events/23409.html   (456 words)

  
 Warren Buffett - Way to Success - My VIP Life, live the life of your dreams
Buffett was born in Omaha, Nebraska, to Howard Buffett, a stockbroker and member of Congress, and Leila Buffett.
Buffett merged all of the partnerships into one entity known simply as Buffett Partnerships, Ltd. The operations were moved to Kiewit Plaza, a functional but less-than-grand office, (where they remain to this day).
Buffett is criticized for the position he held on the board of Coca-Cola Company, since some institutional investors saw this as a conflict of interest with Berkshire 's ownership of Dairy Queen and McLane, heavy buyers of many Coca-Cola products.
www.myviplife.com /lifestories/vipbusiness/Warren_Buffett_wa.php?c=1   (1987 words)

  
 DenverPost.com - Generosity not lost on Buffett kids
The younger Buffetts, given their current interests, could emerge as powerful forces in early-childhood education, safe drinking water for poor countries and the well-being of American Indians.
Peter Buffett, 48, is a New Age keyboardist and composer.
Peter Buffett and his wife, Jennifer, 40, run his foundation together, and they are slowly educating themselves on what it will take to run a bigger institution.
www.denverpost.com /nationworld/ci_4003422   (1041 words)

  
 The American Enterprise: Meet Warren Buffett's Daddy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Howard Buffett retired from politics after losing the 1954 Republican Senate nomination to Roman Hruska, who would achieve immortality in 1970,when he defended Nixon’s doomed Supreme Court nominee G. Harrold Carswell from charges of “mediocrity” with the immortal effusion,“ Even if he were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers.
Congressman Buffett’s son, while revering Pop as a tower of integrity and honesty, seems not to have inherited the old man’s libertarian streak.
But surely the father bequeathed the son a confident contrariety, for if Warren Buffett lacks Howard Buffett’s politics, he shares his disdain for the eastern citadels of commerce and power, choosing to live in his hometown of Omaha: a radically decentralist act of which Rep. Buffett would have heartily approved.
www.taemag.com /issues/articleID.17205/article_detail.asp   (594 words)

  
 Forbes.com - Magazine Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Buffett's panoply of private jets will be lined up near the airplanes of those who were made billionaires by holding Berkshire common stock.
Buffett will be having his usual rare T-bone steak and two orders of hashed brown potatoes.
On a more serious note, it must be said that Howard Buffett's moving photographs of the "Tapestry of Life" in Africa, which reflect his sensitive observation of the plight of Africans, may well be the bargain of the weekend at less than $5,000 apiece.
www.forbes.com /2003/05/02/cz_rl_0502buffett_print.html   (841 words)

  
 Warren Buffett - MarketThoughts.com
Published in 1995, this work of art from Roger Lowenstein (who is also author of “When Genius Failed” and “Origins of the Crash”) chronicles the intimately private, as well as the investing life of one of the greatest investor over – Mr.
Buffett had a true mastery of numbers, and was known to have a “photographic memory.” He also managed to start several successful businesses before he was “forced” to attend college by his father, Howard Buffett.
Most readers may not catch this but a quality that has made Buffett very successful over the years has been his willingness to wait until all or virtually all the odds are lined up in his favor – and then proceed to make a significant bet on his anticipated outcome.
www.marketthoughts.com /warren_buffett_book.html   (387 words)

  
 Warren Buffett - Biography - My VIP Life, live the life of your dreams
Buffett introduced himself as Graham's student and was given a crash course on the insurance business and what gave GEICO an advantage over their competitors.
Buffett was exposed to the economics of selling direct, and perhaps more importantly to the benefits of insurance "float", that is the funds which an insurance company holds and is able to invest for its own profit.
Buffett takes comfort that in the foreseeable future his company will not be one of those shaken by economic or natural catastrophes.
www.myviplife.com /lifestories/vipbusiness/Warren_Buffett_bi.php?c=1   (1763 words)

  
 Media Monitor - The Media Adore Warren Buffett - July 28, 2006
Buffett's pro-abortion agenda was not usually a topic of discussion because Buffett did not want to discuss it.
Both he and Buffett have financially supported the Nuclear Threat Initiative, which believes the threat of nuclear war can be addressed by global treaties, U.S. unilateral disarmament, and the U.S. paying other countries, like Russia, to dismantle their nuclear weapons.
Even though Howard Buffett is supposed to be a Republican, it does not appear that his own Howard G. Buffett Foundation funds any Republican or conservative causes.
www.aim.org /media_monitor/4743_0_2_0_C   (947 words)

  
 BW Online | May 13, 2003 | Some Sage Wisdom for Warren Buffett
Buffett, who declines to talk about his reasons for not sharing with shareholders his thoughts on succession, has offered tantalizing hints in the past about how the company might run without him.
As Buffett and his board have refused to shed any light on potential successors, outsiders have filled in the blanks.
Coca-Cola (KO) and Washington Post Co. (WPO), companies where Buffett is a director, have likely felt his sting: They were among the first, for instance, to announce they would expense stock options, a hobbyhorse of his.
www.businessweek.com /bwdaily/dnflash/may2003/nf20030513_9817_db042.htm   (1160 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Howard Buffett": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Howard Buffett, an isolationist opposed to Roosevelt's New Deal and to the war, served in Congress from 1942 to 1948 and from...
The men changed subjects, discussing a request from Howard Buffett, the assistant to the ADN1 chairman and son of Warren Buffett, the famed Omaha ink-estor.
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www.amazon.com /phrase/Howard-Buffett   (513 words)

  
 The Cheese-O-Sphere » Buffett's kids likely to be first to start giving away his wealth locally -- including ...
Buffett made his commitment to give away 12,050,000 Class B shares of Berkshire Hathaway stock to the foundations official Monday in New York by handing letters to representatives of all five foundations.
Howard Buffett said his younger brother has discussed increasing his support for programs aimed at educating girls in countries where they lack opportunities.
Buffett, BIG supporter of the Death Tax, has actually found a way to avoid the Death Tax.
www.journaltimes.com /nucleus/index.php?itemid=6458   (2252 words)

  
 Business: Wife of billionaire Buffett dies at 72
OMAHA, Neb. - Susan T. Buffett, the wife of billionaire investor Warren Buffett and a director in his company, died Thursday of a stroke while visiting friends in Cody, Wyo. She was 72.
Buffett, the world's second-richest man and chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., was with his wife when she died, the company said.
In the event of Buffett's death, his 49-year-old son, Howard, would become chairman.
www.sptimes.com /2004/07/30/Business/Wife_of_billionaire_B.shtml   (448 words)

  
 USC Events Calendar - 'Tapestry of Life'
Unless you’re Howard Buffett, who not only sees a myriad of problems facing humanity, he photographs them.
Buffett has assembled his images for a book and exhibition that draws attention to the world’s woes.
He is president of Buffett Farms, an 840-acre family farm in central Illinois and a 400-acre farm in Eastern Nebraska.
www.usc.edu /calendar/events/23430.html   (394 words)

  
 UNODC Goodwill Ambassador Julia Ormond to open exhibition of Howard Buffett photographs on human trafficking   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Buffett is manager of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, which funds development and environmental projects worldwide.  His photographs illustrate the crime of human trafficking and "modern-day slavery" throughout the world and their devastating impact on victims.
Son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett, Howard Buffett is active in business, politics, agriculture, conservation, photography and philanthropy.
Ormond, a long-time advocate for human rights issues, has starred in films such as Legends of the Fall, Sabrina and The Barber of Siberia.  She is UNODC's Goodwill Ambassador against human trafficking.
www.unodc.org /press_release_2006_09_28.html   (245 words)

  
 Meet Warren Buffett’s Daddy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Howard Buffett was a stockbroker, "gentle and sweet-natured," in the words of Warren's biographer Roger Lowenstein.
Buffett summed up his views of America and the world in a speech on the House floor condemning the Truman Doctrine: "Even if it were desirable, America is not strong enough to police the world by military force.
Warren Buffett was a diehard Pubbie until his early 30's.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/966804/posts   (1333 words)

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