As we discuss the US Government’s “support” of General Motors. We felt it was opportune to honor the Founder of General Motors - William C. “Billy” Durant. Grandson of Michigan’s Republican Governor, Henry Howland Crapo, and a lifelong Republican, Billy Durant was the leading entrepreneur of the automobile age, ‘The Great Gatsby of Carmaking”.
As a young man, Billy Durant and his partner, Josiah Dort, established the country’s largest manufacturer of horse drawn vehicles in Flint, Michigan. At…
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Added by Ron Wright on December 9, 2008 at 12:38am —
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