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James Alexander Holden

19th century

Jamsetji Tata

19th century

Johann Georg Halske

19th century

John D. Rockefeller

19th century

John Francis Dodge

19th century

John Mohler Studebaker

19th century

Juan Trippe

19th century

King Camp Gillette

19th century

Konosuke Matsushita

19th century

Lars Magnus Ericsson

19th century

Louis K. Liggett

19th century

Madam C. J. Walker

19th century

Marc Birkigt

19th century

Marcel Dassault

19th century

Masuda Takashi

19th century

Meyer Guggenheim

19th century

Nezu Kaichirō

19th century

Oscar Troplowitz

19th century

Otto Röhm

19th century

Owen D. Young

19th century

Paul Drennan Cravath

19th century

Pierre-Georges Latécoère

19th century

Ransom E. Olds

19th century

Robert Stephenson

19th century

Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti

19th century

Sir George White, 1st Baronet

19th century

Thomas W. Hyde

19th century

Victor Roos

19th century

Vincent Bendix

19th century

Walter Beech

19th century

Walter Chrysler

19th century

Walter Lantz

19th century

William Boyce Thompson

19th century

William Nickerson

19th century

William Seward Burroughs I

19th century

William T. Piper

19th century

Willy Messerschmitt

19th century

Yasuda Zenjirō

19th century

Yoshisuke Aikawa

19th century

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1. Wikipedia: Chief executive officer
WikipediaChief executive officer, Etymology section
Quote, Chief executive officer, Etymology section
The term 'chief executive officer' is attested as early as 1782, when an ordinance of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States used the term to refer to governors and other leaders of the executive branches
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