Minor Cooper Keith
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About
Businessman whose United Fruit Company forever changed the landscape of Central American economics and politics.
Before Fame
He used money he made as a lumber surveyor to buy a cattle ranch in Texas.
Trivia
He signed a contract in 1904 with the Guatemalan President Manuel Estrada Cabrera that gave his company tax exemptions, land grants, and control of all railroads on the Atlantic side of Guatemala.
Family Life
His uncle was the famous railroad businessman Henry Meiggs.
Associated With
He and Henry Ford both used tax breaks from abroad to make their products cheaply.
