Benjamin Franklin Fairless, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Benjamin Franklin Fairless

President, U.S. Steel Corporation

Date of Birth: 03-May-1890

Place of Birth: Ohio, United States

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1962

Profession: engineer, civil engineer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Benjamin Franklin Fairless (May 3, 1890 — January 1, 1962) was an American steel company executive.
He was president of a wide range of steel companies during a turbulent and formative period in the American steel industry.
His roles included President of Central Alloy Steel from 1928 to 1930; First Vice President of Republic Steel (which had absorbed Central Steel) from 1930 to 1935; President of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Company from 1935 to 1938; and then President, and later Chairman of the board of directors and Chief Executive Officer of U.S.
Steel (the largest steel company in the United States) from 1938 to 1955. Fairless was a well-known humanitarian, and one of the few steel executives willing to allow unionization in the steel industry.
He received the Medal for Merit in 1946 for helping to break steel production bottlenecks in the United States during World War II.