American business owner (born 1949)
James R. Cargill II
Born James Ray Cargill II
1949 (age 75–76)Nationality American Occupation(s) Heir, Cargill Spouses Children 2 Parents Family Cargill family
James Ray Cargill II (born 1949) is an American business owner.[ 1] [ 2]
Biography
James R. Cargill II is the great-grandson of William Wallace Cargill , the founder of the privately held , globally operating, food corporation Cargill . He has a brother, Austen S. Cargill II , and a sister, Marianne Cargill Liebmann .[ 2]
He sits on the Board of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado at Boulder [ 3] and on the Board of Trustees of the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution .[ 4]
He has donated to the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Art in Minneapolis, Minnesota .[ 5] [ 6]
Through the James R. Cargill II Trust , he has owned stock in SolarAttic, a company that uses solar energy to heat swimming-pools.[ 7]
He lives in Birchwood, Wisconsin and is married with two children. A widower, he married Kathy Cargill in 2012.[ 8] As of 2019, his estimated net worth is US$4.2 billion.[ 9]
References
^ "#220 James R. Cargill II - The Forbes 400 Richest Americans 2009 - Forbes.com" . www.forbes.com . Retrieved 2 February 2019 .
^ a b Brian Solomon, The Secretive Cargill Billionaires And Their Family Tree , Forbes , 9/22/2011
^ "Board - Center of the American West - CU-Boulder" . centerwest.org . Retrieved 2 February 2019 .
^ "The National Air and Space Museum Board" . 4 April 2009. Archived from the original on 4 April 2009. Retrieved 2 February 2019 .
^ "10_financial" . annualreport.walkerart.org . Retrieved 2 February 2019 .
^ "Minnea" (PDF) . Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 November 2010. Retrieved 2 February 2019 .
^ "SolarAttic, Inc.: Minutes of Annual Meeting of Stockholders, February 12, 1998" (PDF) . solarattic.com . Retrieved 2 February 2019 .
^ Hollingsworth, Jana (April 13, 2024). "Who is Kathy Cargill, the wealthy Park Point buyer who clashed with Duluth?" . Minnesota Star Tribune . Retrieved September 5, 2024 .
^ "James Cargill, II. - Forbes" . Forbes . Retrieved 1 February 2019 .
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