Thomas J. Watson Jr. (1914 to 1993) was an American businessman who led IBM through its change from punched card machines to electronic computers. The son of IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, he joined the company as a salesman after graduating from Brown University in 1937, returned to it in 1946 after flying for the Army Air Forces in World War II, became president of IBM in 1952 and chief executive shortly before his father died in 1956. He hired electrical engineers by the hundreds to design mainframe computers, and company revenues more than tripled between 1950 and 1956. He stayed at the head of IBM until 1971, later served as the sixteenth United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1979 to 1981, and was president of the Boy Scouts of America from 1964 to 1968.
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was an American businessman, diplomat, Army Air Forces pilot, and philanthropist
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was an American businessman, diplomat, Army Air Forces pilot, and philanthropist
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he was the second IBM president (1952-71)
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he was the second IBM president (1952-71)
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the largest and most profitable digital computer manufacturer in the world, IBM Corporation
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he was the second IBM president (1952-71)
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