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Apr 28, 2022 · On June 10, 1994, Mary Maxwell Gates, mother of Microsoft co-founder William H. Gates III and a woman widely admired for her civic activism, dies of breast cancer at age 64. Gates was the first female president of King County’s United Way, the first woman to chair the national United Way’s executive committee, and the first woman to be a ...
Jun 10, 1994 · Mrs. Gates also figured in her son's success. She helped cement Microsoft's early connection with IBM, which led to development of the IBM PC with DOS, an operating system supplied by Microsoft. When someone mentioned Microsoft to IBM President John Opel in 1980, Opel responded, "Oh, that's run by Bill Gates, Mary Gates' son."
Gates was born in Seattle, Washington, to William H. Gates, Sr. and Mary Maxwell Gates. His ancestry includes English, German, and Scots-Irish. His father was a prominent lawyer, and his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way. Gates's maternal grandfather was JW Maxwell, a national bank president. Gates has one elder sister, Kristi ...
Sep 16, 2020 · Gates Sr. met his first wife, Mary Maxwell, at the University of Washington. They had two daughters and a son — Gates Jr. — and remained married until her death in 1994. Two years later he ...
Bill Gates credits his success in life to his parents, Bill Sr. and Mary Maxwell Gates.. The Microsoft founder and philanthropist is one of Bill Sr. and Mary’s three children. The couple met ...
Apr 3, 2014 · Their father, William H. Gates Sr., was a promising, if somewhat shy, law student when he met his future wife, Mary Maxwell. She was an athletic, outgoing student at the University of Washington ...
Mary Maxwell Gates là một nữ doanh nhân người Mỹ. Bà là thành viên hội đồng quản trị nhiếp chính của trường đại học Washington trong 18 năm, từ năm 1975 đến năm 1993. Mary Maxwell Gates là vị chủ tịch đầu tiên của King County's United Way, bà cũng là người phụ nữ đầu tiên ...
