James R. Cargill II

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James R. Cargill II
Born
James Ray Cargill II

1949 (age 75–76)
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Heir, Cargill
Spouses
  • Susan Kelly
    ​
    (died 2010)​
  • Kathy
    ​
    (m. 2012)​
Children2
Parents
Family Cargill family

James Ray Cargill II (born 1949) is an American business owner. [1] [2]

Biography

James R. Cargill II is the great-grandson of William Wallace Cargill, the founder of the privately held, globally operating, food corporation Cargill. He has a brother, Austen S. Cargill II, and a sister, Marianne Cargill Liebmann. [2]

He sits on the Board of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado at Boulder [3] and on the Board of Trustees of the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. [4]

He has donated to the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Art in Minneapolis, Minnesota. [5] [6]

Through the James R. Cargill II Trust, he has owned stock in SolarAttic, a company that uses solar energy to heat swimming-pools. [7]

He lives in Birchwood, Wisconsin and is married with two children. A widower, he married Kathy Cargill (née Pospychalla) [8] in 2012. [9] As of 2019, his estimated net worth is US$4.2 billion. [10]

References

  1. ↑ "#220 James R. Cargill II - The Forbes 400 Richest Americans 2009 - Forbes.com". www.forbes.com. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  2. 1 2 Brian Solomon, The Secretive Cargill Billionaires And Their Family Tree, Forbes , 9/22/2011
  3. ↑ "Board - Center of the American West - CU-Boulder". centerwest.org. Retrieved 2 February 2019.[ permanent dead link ]
  4. ↑ "The National Air and Space Museum Board". 4 April 2009. Archived from the original on 4 April 2009. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  5. ↑ "10_financial". annualreport.walkerart.org. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  6. ↑ "Minnea" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 November 2010. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  7. ↑ "SolarAttic, Inc.: Minutes of Annual Meeting of Stockholders, February 12, 1998" (PDF). solarattic.com. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  8. ↑ "An 'outsider' on Park Point, Kathy Cargill is actually an Oredocker from Ashland". WPR. Retrieved 2025-02-15.
  9. ↑ Hollingsworth, Jana (April 13, 2024). "Who is Kathy Cargill, the wealthy Park Point buyer who clashed with Duluth?". Minnesota Star Tribune . Retrieved September 5, 2024.
  10. ↑ "James Cargill, II. - Forbes". Forbes. Retrieved 1 February 2019.


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