Walter A. Haas

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Walter A. Haas, Sr. (May 11, 1889 – December 7, 1979) was a former President and Chairman of Levi Strauss & Co. Haas was credited with saving the once struggling company.

Haas graduated with a BS degree from the UC Berkeley School of Business in 1910. He also earned an honorary degree from Berkeley in 1958. In 1989, the school was renamed the Haas School of Business in his honor. Haas had three children: Rhoda Haas Goldman, Peter E. Haas, and Walter A. Haas, Jr..

Haas served in the U.S. Army Field Artillery during World War I. A Republican, he was an alternate delegate to the 1952 Republican National Convention. He was Jewish, and served as president of the San Francisco Jewish Welfare Federation.

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• Who's Who in America 1964