Frederic B. Ingram

Frederic B. Ingram grew up in Nashville, Tennessee.[1] His father, Orrin Henry Ingram, Sr., was a business magnate.[2] His mother is Hortense Bigelow. He had a brother, E. Bronson Ingram II, who died in 1995.[2][3]

His paternal great-grandfather three times removed, David Ingram, had immigrated from Leeds, England, in 1780.[4] His paternal great-grandfather, Orrin Henry Ingram, was a lumber baron in Wisconsin.[4][5] His paternal grandfather, Erskine B. Ingram, was a lumber baron and businessman.[5]

Ingram was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy.[5][6] He attended Vanderbilt University and Princeton University,[5] graduating in 1952.[6]

Ingram inherited Ingram Corp. with his brother from their late father in 1963.[3] He served as its Chairman.[7] In 1970, he acquired the Great Plains Construction Co., an oil and gas pipeline and water line construction company headquartered in Lubbock, Texas, which became a subsidiary of the Ingram Corp.[7] The subsidiary built sections 5 and 6 of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System; it also built a pipeline in Iran and bid for pipeline contracts in Saudi Arabia.[7]

In 1976, Ingram and his brother were indicted for bribing officials in Illinois for a "$48 million Chicago sewage contract".[3][8] Ingram pleaded innocent.[9] However, while his brother was acquitted, Ingram was charged on 29 counts and sentenced to four years in prison.[1][5][10] He was jailed in federal prison for 16 months.[1][4] His sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter in December 1980, and he was released in May 1981.[1][4]

His business ties were separated from his brother's in 1980; Ingram took the oil interests while his brother kept the distribution subsidiary.[4] However, he "failed" after he lost $100 million over six weeks in 1983.[4][11]

In 1985, Ingram sued William F. Earthman, the former Chairman of the Commerce Union Bank, a Nashville-based bank, over the repayment of a private loan.[1][12] He won the lawsuit.[11]

Ingram renounced his United States citizenship and moved to Monaco after his sentence was commuted.[4][11] He later moved to Ireland and became an Irish citizen.[4] He lived off the income from a Liechtenstein-based US$150 million trust fund until Ingram Corp. was reduced to insolvency in 1984 by large oil trading losses.[5]

In 1982, Ingram was accused of raping a 25-year-old woman in New Orleans, where he resided.[1] She received US$350,000 from a jury in the Civil District Court of Orleans Parish.[1]

Ingram was married to Ingrid Goude, a Swedish-born model and actress.[13] They resided in Beverly Hills, California.[2]

Ingram died on August 26, 2015.[6]

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