
Anne Cox Chambers

Anne Cox Chambers was bornon 1 December 1919 in United States. The massive conglomerate owned by Anne Cox Chambers and her family is adding to its automotive business. Cox Enterprises announced a $4 billion purchase of Dealertrack, a maker of software for car dealerships, in June 2015. The company's other interests include communications (cable and broadband), media (newspapers, TV, radio stations) and the automotive unit (Autotrader. com, Manheim car auctions, Kelley Blue Book.) Chambers, the surviving daughter of Cox Enterprises founder James M. Cox (d. 1957), was ambassador to Belgium under President Jimmy Carter and holds the French Legion of Honor title.
2010 | $12.5 Billion |
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2011 | $12 Billion |
2012 | $10.7 Billion |
2013 | $13.5 Billion |
2014 | $16.1 Billion |
2015 | $18 Billion |
2018 | $17 Billion |
1 billion in September 2014, based principally on her equity interest in Cox Enterprises
For 33 years she co-owned the family company with her sister, Barbara Cox Anthony, who died on May 28, 2007
In October 2006 the High, in collaboration with the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, opened the exhibition "Louvre Atlanta", in a partnership facilitated by Chambers
In 2005 the High Museum of Art named one of the wings of its expanded facility after Chambers in honor of her lifetime of support
In 2004 Cox Enterprises announced a debt financed $7
She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003
In 1988 Anthony's son James Cox Kennedy became chairman and chief executive officer
In 1983, she received an honorary degree in Doctor of Laws from Oglethorpe University
In the early 1980s Chambers also served as honorary chair of the fund-raising effort to construct the museum's Richard Meier complex
president Jimmy Carter, a post she held from 1977 to 1981
Her work with the High began in 1965, when she helped to establish the "Forward Arts Foundation", a fund-raising group for the museum
In 1955, she married Robert William Chambers, by whom she had a son, James Cox Chambers (an actor, dancer, and choreographer)
She is the wealthiest person in Georgia, the 28th-richest person in the United States and 53rd-richest person in the world
Cox, a newspaper publisher and 1920 Democratic Presidential nominee, and his second wife, Margaretta Parker Blair
Anne Beau Cox Chambers (born December 1, 1919) is an American media proprietor, who has a stake of interest in Cox Enterprises, a privately held media empire that includes newspapers, television, radio, cable television, and other businesses