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Former chief executive officer and chairman, Enron Corporation

Nationality: American.

Born: April 15, 1942, in Tyrone, Missouri.

Education: University of Missouri, BA, 1964; MA, 1965; University of Houston, PhD, 1970.

Family: Son of Omer Lay (a store owner, salesman, and lay minister) and Ruth Reese (a farmer); married Judith Diane Ayers, 1966 (divorced 1982); married Linda Ann Herrold (a legal secretary), 1982; children (first marriage): two.

Career: Humble Oil, 1965–1968, economist and speech writer; U.S. Navy, 1968–1969, supply officer; George Washington University, 1969–1973, lecturer and...