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Carlson; telecommunications Chicago.(Focus: Influential Families)(Telephone and Data Systems Inc.)(Company Profile)
Crain's Chicago Business, October, 2005 by Dorfman, Daniel I.
Byline: Daniel I. Dorfman LeRoy T. Carlson, 89, chairman emeritus, Telephone & Data Systems Inc. LeRoy T. Carlson Jr., 59, president and chief executive, TDS. Chairman of TDS subsidiaries U.S. Cellular Corp. and TDS Telecom (son) Walter C. D. Carlson, 52, non-executive chairman, TDS. Partner with Chicago law firm Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, which serves as the company's general counsel (son) Letitia G.
Carlson, 44, director, TDS. Physician and associate clinical professor at George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. (daughter) Dialing for dollars: The son of Swedish immigrants, LeRoy T. Carlson Sr. was raised on Chicago's South Side. In 1961, he formed Telephones Inc., a small phone-service provider. Eight years later, he formed...
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