Lee iacocca short biography

(1924-2019)

Who Was Lee Iacocca?

Lee Iacocca joined the Ford Motor Company in 1946. He rose rapidly, becoming president of Ford in 1970. Though Henry Ford II fired Iacocca in 1978, he was soon hired by the nearly bankrupt Chrysler Corporation. Within a few years Chrysler was showing record profits, and Iacocca was a national celebrity. He left Chrysler in 1992 but returned for an ad campaign in 2005.

Early Life

Lido Anthony Iacocca, generally known as Lee Iacocca, was born to Italian immigrants Nicola and Antonietta in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on October 15, 1924. Iacocca suffered a serious bout of rheumatic fever as a child, and as a result he was found medically unfit for military service in World War II. During the war, he attended Lehigh University as an undergraduate. He then received a master's degree in engineering from Princeton University.

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Iacocca in 1972
Born	Lido Anthony Iacocca (1924-10-15)October 15, 1924 Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	July 2, 2019(2019-07-02) (aged 94) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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Years active	1946–1992
Spouse(s)	Mary McCleary ​ ​ (m. 1956; died 1983)​ Peggy Johnson ​ ​ (m. 1986; annulled 1987)​ Darrien Earle ​ ​ (m. 1991; div. 1994)​
Children	2

Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca (EYE-ə-KOH-kə; October 15, 1924 – July 2, 2019) was an American automobile executive best known for the development of the Ford Mustang, Continental Mark III, and Ford Pinto cars while at the Ford Motor Company in the 1960s, and for reviving the Chrysler Corporation as its CEO during the 1980s. He was president and CEO of Chrysler from 1978 and chairman from 1979, until his retirement at the end of 1992. He was one of the few executives to preside over the operati