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David Murdock, North Carolina Businessman, Passes Away at 102
- David H. Murdock, an American billionaire and philanthropist, passed away on Monday at the age of 102 at his property in Thousand Oaks, California.
- After his wife died of cancer at 43 in 1985, Murdock focused intensely on nutrition and health to improve longevity and wellness.
- He bought Cannon Mills and the City of Kannapolis in the 1980s and launched the North Carolina Research Campus in the early 2000s to foster nutrition research.
- In 2014, Murdock committed to providing $15 million annually in perpetuity to support the research institute bearing his name and collaborated with PepsiCo to advance projects on the campus.
- Murdock's investments revitalized Kannapolis and advanced nutrition science, creating lasting jobs and community growth that define his legacy.
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David H. Murdock, who rose from hardscrabble beginnings to become a billionaire investor, real estate mogul, corporate raider and philanthropist, and whose late-in-life devotion to healthy nutrition once led him to announce that he planned to live to 125, died on Monday at his ranch in Thousand Oaks, Calif. He was 102. His death was confirmed by Tracy Murdock, his ex-wife. Mr. Murdock, who dropped out of school at 14 and was briefly a homeless W…
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