Jay B. Dillingham

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Jay B. Dillingham (born 1910) was a former president of the Kansas City Stockyards as well as former president of the Chamber of Commerce for both Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas.

Dillingham received a law degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1932.

He was president of the stockyards from 1937 until 1975. During his tenure he started the Golden Ox Restaurant in the stockyards the Livestock Exchange Building which developed fame for the Kansas City strip steak. He also dealt with the Great Flood of 1951 that destroyed the stockyards from which it never fully recovered.

Dillingham donated stockyards land to the American Royal and for Kemper Arena.

Interstate 670 in Kansas and Missouri is named for him.

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