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Biography of David Packard
Name: David Packard
Birth Date: September 7, 1912
Death Date: March 26, 1996
Place of Birth: Pueblo, Colorado, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: business executive, government official
David Packard
David Packard (1912-1996) was the co-founder and a longtime executive officer of Hewlett-Packard Company, a leading manufacturer of electronic measuring devices, calculators, and computers. He also served as deputy secretary of defense under President Richard Nixon and was a major benefactor to many philanthropic organizations.David Packard was born September 7, 1912, in Pueblo, Colorado, the son of a lawyer and a high school teacher. He avidly read library books on science and electricity, and built his first radio while still in elementary school. After graduating from his local public high school, Packard enrolled as an electrical engineering student at Stanford University in California. There he met William Hewlett, a fellow student who shared his interest in electronics and the out-of-doors. In college he was a varsity athlete and president of his fraternity. He received a B.A. with honors in 1934.Packard went to Schenectady, New York, to work in the vacuum tube …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…board at Hewlett-Packard and was named chairman emeritus, a position he held until his death at the age of 83.Packard died on March 26, 1996 at Stanford Medical Center, after being hospitalized for ten days with pneumonia. His entire .6 billion fortune was given to the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, making it one of the nation's largest philanthropic organizations. Further Reading There is no full-length biography of David Packard. For information about his life see magazine articles such as N.W., "The Maverick of Electronics," Dun's Review (August 1967); "Lessons of Leadership: David Packard of Hewlett-Packard," Nation's Business (January 1974); and "David Packard--1981 DPMA Distinguished Information Sciences Award Winner," Data Management (October 1981). Michael S. Malone discusses Packard, Hewlett, and the Hewlett-Packard Company at some length in his book The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley (1985).San Jose Mercury News (March 27, 1996).Hewlett-Packard Homepage, "David Packard 1912-1996," http://www.hp.com/abouthp/packard.htm
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