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Gates, William H., 1925-2020

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Personal name headingGates, William H., 1925-2020
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Variant(s)Gates, William H., 1925-
Gates, Bill, 1925-2020
Gates, Bill, Sr., 1925-2020
Gates, William Henry, Jr., 1925-2020
See alsoFounded corporate body: Preston, Gates & Ellis
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1925-11-30
Death date2020-09-14
Place of birthBremerton (Wash.)
Place of deathHood Canal (Wash.)
AffiliationBill & Melinda Gates Foundation
William H. Gates Foundation
Seattle-King County Bar Association
Washington State Bar Association
University of Washington. School of Law
Profession or occupationLawyers Philanthropists
Special noteFormerly on undifferentiated name record n 88160236
Found inCharacteristics of legal malpractice, c1989: t.p. (William H. Gates) p. iii (William H. Gates, Esq.; Bill)
Wikipedia, 6 July 2010 (William H. Gates, Sr.; William Henry Gates II; b. Bremerton, Wash., Nov. 30, 1925; retired American attorney, author of Showing up for life, and Wealth and our commonwealth; father of Microsoft founder Bill Gates; practiced law until 1998)
The New York Times, Bill Gates Sr., who guided billionaire son's philanthropy, dies at 94, September 15, 2020, viewed online September 16, 2020 (Bill Gates Sr. died on Monday [September 14] at his home on Hood Canal, Seattle area; in 1994 he offered to help his son, Microsoft founder Bill Gates Jr., with requests for money; Bill Jr. set aside $100 to open the William H. Gates Foundation, with Bill Sr. writing the checks; Bill Gates Sr. managed the foundation over the next 13 years; in 2000 Bill Gates and his wife combined three family foundations and donated $5 billion in stock to create successor charity, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, with them and his father as co-chairs and his father still manager; by 2008 Bill Gates Jr. began working full-time at the foundation and his father's role began to diminish; William Henry Gates Sr. was called William Henry Gates Jr. at birth; after his son Bill--born William Henry Gates III--became famous, the father adopted the suffix "Sr." and the son became "Jr."; earned a juris doctor from law school, University of Washington, in 1950; co-founded what became Preston, Gates & Ellis (now K&L Gates), a Seattle law firm, in 1964, and was a partner until 1998; he was president of the Seattle/King County Bar Association and the Washington State Bar Association, and a director of the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce, the King County United Way and Planned Parenthood; in 1995 he founded the Technology Alliance to expand jobs in the field; served 15 years as a regent of the University of Washington)
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