Owen D. Young
Owen Young | |
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Young, 1928 | |
| Born | October 27, 1874 Stark, New York, U.S. |
| Died | July 11, 1962 (aged 87) St. Augustine, Florida, U.S. |
| Education | St. Lawrence University (BA) Boston University (LLB) |
| Political party | Democratic |
Owen D. Young (October 27, 1874 – July 11, 1962) was an American industrialist, businessman, lawyer and diplomat at the Second Reparations Conference (SRC) in 1929, as a member of the German Reparations International Commission.
He is known for the plan to settle Germany's World War I reparations, known as the Young Plan and for the creation of the Radio Corporation of America. Young founded RCA as a subsidiary of General Electric in 1919; he became its first chairman and continued in that position until 1929. RCA was separated into as another traded company in 1932. This was although they still held a large portion of RCA shares and liquidated by GE in 1986.