From academics and facilities to athletics, Fred Smith deeply invested in the future of the University of Memphis.

"It's difficult to put into words the tremendous loss felt by all who knew Frederick W. Smith," FedEx CEO and President Raj Subramaniam said.

FedEx founder Fred Smith was a complex character with numerous interests. Here's a look at some perhaps under-reported aspects of his life.

Fred Smith, the founder of FedEx who helped create the overnight delivery industry, changing the way businesses and consumers get the goods they purchased, has died. He was 80 years old. His death was ...

Following graduation, Smith served as a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1966 to 1969. He completed two tours in Vietnam ...

Doug and Lee reflect on Fred Smith’s entrepreneurial grit and enduring impact, crediting him with inventing and scaling a ...

T he last time I saw Fred Smith was just a few weeks ago, at a meeting in Nashville. We were taking a quick break from an intense dialogue with leaders across the political spectr ...

This story will be updated. Founder of the FedEx Corporation Fred Smith has died Saturday at 80. Smith was born in 1944 in Marks, Mississippi before going on to earn his undergraduate degree at ...

When he was a student at Yale in 1965, Fred Smith wrote an economics paper that spelled out his idea for a nationwide overnight delivery system. His professor gave him a C. Smith didn’t give up. After ...