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FedEx founder Fred Smith, a Marine Corps veteran who revolutionized package delivery, dies at 80
Fred Smith, the FedEx Corp. founder who revolutionized the express delivery industry, has died, the company said. He was 80.
Daily Memphian14h
Airport to be named after FedEx founder
The Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority Board approved a resolution to name the airport after Smith in a board meeting on ...
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Thank You, Mr. Smith; From Washington Energy Policy
The pantheon of great American innovators, entrepreneurs, and industrialists includes Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Andrew ...
STAT Times3d
Remembering Fred Smith, the man who delivered the future
When FedEx began in 1971, the idea of overnight delivery was a fantasy to most. The tech wasn’t there, the infrastructure ...
Daily Memphian3d
‘Most important Memphian of all time’ has died
FedEx founder and executive chairman Frederick W. Smith, who changed the face of global commerce and his adopted hometown of ...
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Frederick W. Smith, 1944-2025
and among the greatest was the FedEx founder Fred Smith, who died this weekend at age 80. Frederick W. Smith was born in Mississippi in 1944 and served in the Marines in the fraught 1960s, ...
PGA Tour Sends Heartfelt Message on Fred Smith's Death
PGA Tour Sends Heartfelt Message on Fred Smith's Death originally appeared on Athlon Sports.