Roger Milliken

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Roger Milliken (born October 24, 1915) is a U.S. textile heir, whose grandfather built textile giant Milliken & Co. by buying financially strapped companies. He attended Yale University, where he was a member of Wolf's Head Society. He inherited the company in 1947. Today Milliken & Co. is the largest private textile firm in the world. Milliken, who resides in South Carolina, is well-known for the millions of dollars he has donated to the Republican Party over many years.