William Sanders (businessman)
{{Short description|American real estate businessman}}
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| birth_name = William David Sanders
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1941|12|02}}
| birth_place = Ramsey County, Minnesota, U.S.
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| education = Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
| occupation = Real estate developer
| known for = Founder, LaSalle Partners
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| spouse = {{marriage|Louann H. Feuille|1974}}
| children = 5
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| relatives = Beto O'Rourke (son-in-law)
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William David Sanders (born December 2, 1941) is an American real estate businessman and developer.{{cite web|url=http://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VCLD-V22|title=William David Sanders; from "Minnesota Birth Index, 1935-2002"|website=FamilySearch|agency=Minnesota Department of Health|accessdate=March 26, 2019}}{{cite book | first=Steve | last=Bergsman | year=2006 | title=Maverick Real Estate Financing: The Art of Raising Capital and Owning Properties Like Ross, Sanders and Carey | publisher=Wiley | isbn=978-0-471-74587-7}}
Biography
Sanders was born in 1941 in Ramsey County, Minnesota, the son of Marion Jane (Birkenstein) and David Edwin Sanders, an advertising agency owner. His father was born in Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico, to German Jewish immigrants. Sanders' maternal grandfather was born in Chicago to German Jewish parents while his maternal grandmother was also born in Chicago to Irish Catholic parents.{{cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/clip/25512423/david_and_marion_marriage_announcement/|title=David and Marion marriage announcement|author=|date=|website=Newspapers.com|accessdate=14 March 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://swja.library.arizona.edu//sites/swja.sites.arizona.edu/files/lowenberg.pdf|title=The Family of Levi and Friederike Lowenberg|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}{{cite web|url=http://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q239-WKQQ|title=Elizabeth Lillian Beahan; from "Illinois, Cook County, Birth Certificates, 1871-1940"|website=FamilySearch|agency=Cook County Courthouse, Chicago|accessdate=March 25, 2019}} He was raised in El Paso, Texas.Jones, Randall [https://books.google.com/books?id=0TyhKdf1LqIC&dq=William+D.+Sanders&pg=PT51 The Richest Man in Town: The Twelve Commandments of Wealth] In 1964, Sanders graduated from Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.{{cite web|url=http://news.cornell.edu/stories/1999/04/real-estate-entrepreneur-and-alumnus-be-honored|title=Real estate entrepreneur and alumnus to be honored|author=|date=|website=Cornell Chronicle|accessdate=14 March 2019}} In 1968, he founded the real estate firm LaSalle Partners, headquartered in Chicago. In 1999, LaSalle Partners merged with Jones Lang Wooton to form Jones Lang LaSalle.
He served as chairman of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT). In 1999, he received Cornell's "Entrepreneur of the Year" award.
Sanders once managed a real estate portfolio of $20 billion, and was referred to as the "Warren Buffett of real estate" by Bloomberg News in 1999.{{cite news |last1=Saul|first1=Stephanie|author-link1=Stephanie Saul |title=Beto O'Rourke Once Supported an El Paso Real Estate Deal. Barrio Residents Remember. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/29/us/politics/beto-orourke-el-paso-texas-senate.html |accessdate=31 October 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=29 October 2018 |quote=Bloomberg News once called Mr. Sanders the Warren Buffett of the real estate industry and estimated the value of his portfolio at $20 billion.}}
Personal life
Sanders married Louann H. Feuille on May 18, 1974 in El Paso.{{cite web|url=https://www.dshs.texas.gov/vs/marriagedivorce/default.shtm|title=Texas Marriage Index -- 1824-2014 |publisher=Texas Department of State Health Services |location=Austin, Texas|author=|date=|website=texas.gov|accessdate=14 March 2019}} They have two sons and three daughters.
Sanders' middle daughter, Amy, is the wife of Beto O'Rourke, former Democratic U.S. Rep. of Texas's 16th congressional district.{{cite news|title=From Santa Fe to the White House?|url=http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/from-santa-fe-to-the-white-house/article_099d8df9-bfc0-5249-89a6-bf9874bca660.html|newspaper=The Santa Fe New Mexican|last=Terrell|first=Steve|date=March 30, 2019|access-date=April 7, 2019}}
References
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080305165556/http://www.nareit.com/portfoliomag/06janfeb/feat2.shtml Profile of William Sanders by Real Estate Portfolio magazine]
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Category:American businesspeople in real estate
Category:Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences alumni
Category:Businesspeople from Minnesota
Category:American people of German-Jewish descent
Category:People from Ramsey County, Minnesota
Category:20th-century American businesspeople
Category:21st-century American businesspeople
Category:American people of Irish descent