Daniel C. Searle

Daniel C. Searle
Born May 6, 1926
Evanston, Illinois
Died October 30, 2007
Scotland
Residence Winnetka, Illinois
Hobe Sound, Florida
Education Deerfield Academy
Yale University
Harvard Business School
Occupation Businessman, philanthropist
Spouse(s) Dain Searle
Children D. Gideon Searle
Michael Searle
Anne Bent Searle
Parent(s) John Gideon Searle
Relatives Gideon Daniel Searle (paternal great-grandfather)

Daniel C. Searle (1926–2007) was an American businessman, heir and philanthropist.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Biography

Early life

Daniel Searle was born in Evanston, Illinois on May 6, 1926.[2][5] His paternal great-grandfather was Gideon Daniel Searle, who founded G. D. Searle & Company in 1888.[1][5] His father was John Gideon Searle, CEO of the family business from 1936 to 1972.[8] He had a sister, Suzanne Dixon and a brother, William L. Searle.[1][9][10] He attended boarding school in Arizona and the Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts.[1] He served in the United States Navy Reserve and graduated from Yale University, where he played polo.[1][2][4][5] In 1952, he received an MBA from Harvard Business School.[1][2][4][5]

Career

He was appointed President of G. D. Searle & Co in 1966 and Chief Executive Officer in 1970.[1][2][4][5][7] In 1977, he recruited Donald Rumsfeld, whose congressional campaign he had financed.[1][2][7] In 1985, G. D. Searle & Co. was sold to Monsanto for US$2.7 billion.[5][7] The Searle family owned 34% of the company.[1] He later invested in the Milwaukee Braves and the Chicago Bulls.[1]

Philanthropy

He set up the Searle Freedom Trust to support free market economics.[1][2] The trust was worth US$100 million in 2007.[2] The trust will be depleted and closed by 2025 after the model of the John M. Olin Foundation, to avoid the money being misused for left-wing causes as the Ford Foundation was.[2] Through the trust, he was one of the largest donors to the American Enterprise Institute.[2] The trust has also donated to the Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation, the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, the Pacific Research Foundation, the Reason Foundation, the State Policy Network, the Federalist Society, Donors Trust, Philanthropy Roundtable, the Institute for Humane Studies, the Collegiate Network, the Political Theory Project at Brown University, and others.[2][6][11] He was a trustee of the Hudson Institute.[12] He also sat on the Board of Trustees of the Art Institute of Chicago.[4] In 1996 heirs to concentration camp victims sued him in connection with a Degas painting they claimed had been seized from their family in WWII.[13] This claim resulted in the first settlement concerning Nazi looted art in America [14]

He joined the Board of Trustees of Northwestern University in 1966 and became Life Trustee in 2000.[4][7] He served as an Adviser to the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust and donated grants to the Searle Biomedical Awards at the Feinberg School of Medicine, the Searle Leadership Fund in the Life Sciences, the Chicago Biomedical Consortium and the Searle Hall, home of the Northwestern University Health Center.[4][7] He was a trustee of the John G. Searle Family Trust, which funded the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence and the Searle Center at the Northwestern University School of Law.[4][7]

Personal life

He was married to Dain Searle.[1] They had two sons, D. Gideon and Michael, and a daughter, Anne Bent.[1][4] They lived in Hobe Sound, Florida and maintained his parents's family home in Winnetka, Illinois.[1][7][15] He was a member of the Augusta National Golf Club.[16] He died of emphysema on a pheasant hunting trip in Scotland on October 30, 2007.[1][2][3][4]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 Trevor Jensen, Daniel C. Searle: 1926 - 2007, The Chicago Tribune, November 06, 2007
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 2.11 Miller, John J. (November 8, 2007). "Daniel C. Searle, R.I.P.". National Review. Retrieved March 6, 2015.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Searle Freedom Trust
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9 Northwestern University biography
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 Daniel C. Searle, 81; chief executive of family's drug, research company, The Los Angeles Times, November 08, 2007
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Kim Dennis, Daniel C. Searle: 1926-2007, Philanthropy, Winter 2008
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 In Memoriam, Northwestern Magazine, Spring 2008
  8. ↑ Harvard Business School: John G. Searle
  9. ↑ Searle, William L., The Chicago Tribune, August 23, 2004
  10. ↑ Paid Notice: Deaths SEARLE, WILLIAM L., The New York Times, August 22, 2004
  11. ↑ David Scharfenberg, , The Phoenix, October 12, 2011
  12. ↑ Hudson Institute
  13. ↑ Daniel Searle sued over Degas picture linked to Nazis Author:"Wall Street Journal , Eastern edition [New York, N.Y] 19 July 1996: B6
  14. ↑ "Settlement in Dispute Over a Painting Looted by Nazis" By JUDITH H. DOBRZYNSKI New York Times (1923-Current file) [New York, N.Y] 14 Aug 1998: A17.
  15. ↑ Dennis Rodkin, Pharma Family Sells Searle Estate, Chicago
  16. ↑ Augusta National Golf Club members list, USA Today