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Chairman and chief executive officer, United States Steel Corporation

Nationality: American.

Born: September 11, 1942, in Reading, Pennsylvania.

Education: University of Pittsburgh, BS, 1964; MS, 1965; PhD, 1971.

Family: Married Sandra L. Mort, 1965; children: three.

Career: United States Steel Corporation, 1965–1975, industrial engineer, Pittsburgh headquarters; 1975–1978, assistant, general superintendent, and superintendent, South Works in Chicago; 1978–1979, assistant division superintendent of primary mills, Gary Works in Indiana; 1979–1981, director of...