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Sam Walton
(1918-1992)
Who Was Sam Walton?
Sam Walton opened the first Walmart in 1962, after years in the retail management business.
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The discount chain expanded internationally over the next 30 years, growing into the world’s largest company by 2010. Walton stepped down as CEO in 1988, at the age of 70, but remained active in the company until his death in 1992.
Early Years
A pioneering businessman who broke convention and showed that large discount stores could thrive in small, rural areas, Samuel Moore Walton was born March 29, 1918, in Kingfisher, Oklahoma.
He was the first son of Thomas Walton, a banker, and his wife, Nancy Lee.
Early in his life Walton and his family moved to Missouri, where he was raised. An able student and a good athlete, Walton quarterbacked his high school football team and was an Eagle Scout.
Upon his graduation from Hickman High School in Columbia, Missouri, in 1936, his classmates named him "most versatile boy."
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