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Former chairman, chief executive officer, and president, American Electric Power Company

Nationality: American.

Born: February 6, 1942, in Houston, Texas.

Education: Rice University, BA, 1964; BS, 1965; Cornell University, PhD, 1970.

Family: Son of Ernest Linn Draper and Marcia L. Saylor; married Mary Deborah Doyle, 1962; children: four.

Career: University of Texas, 1970–1979, faculty; Gulf States Utilities, 1979–1987,...