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August Anheuser Busch Jr. (March 28, 1899 – September 29, 1989) was an American beer magnate who built the Anheuser-Busch Companies into the country's biggest brewery by 1957 as founder and chairman of the St. Louis Cardinals franchise from 1953 to 1975.
In 2014, the Cardinals inducted him into the team Hall of Fame.
Early life
August Anheuser Busch Jr. was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on March 28, 1899. August Anheuser Busch Sr., president of Anheuser-Busch, was his father. Alice Zisemann was his mother. Adolphus Busch, his paternal grandfather, was the founder of Anheuser-Busch.
Personal life
Busch has married four times, out of a total of 11 children. Two of his marriages ended in divorce. Gertrude Buholzer (1927–2016), a Swiss immigrant, was his third wife, a Roman Catholic. Their seven children were raised in their mother's faith, and Busch was later accepted into the congregation, but the family was dissolving in 1978. Margaret Rohde, his fourth wife, died in 1988.
In December 1974, Gertrude Buholzer, his sister, died in a car accident while driving home from school.
His deceased children were Carlota Busch Giersch and Lilly Busch Hermann (wife of Bob Hermann) and Elizabeth Busch Bouch; all six children of Elizabeth Overton Busch III and Edward Busch; and Adolphus A. Busch III, Peter W. Busch, Thomas Busch; and Andrew D. Busch (wife of Baseball Hall of Famer Eddie Mathews), all six children of Gertrude Busch's (father of Baseball Hall of Famer
Career
After learning the family trade, Busch became superintendent of Anheuser-Busch brewing operations in 1924 and head of the brewery division after his father's death in 1934. August A. Jr. succeeded him as president and CEO after his older brother Adolphus Busch III died in 1946.
By 1957, August Busch led the company to become the country's largest brewery, defeating former brewer Pabst Brewing Company and Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. He went from a single brewery in St. Louis to nine national distributorships. Anheuser-Busch had annual "aggregate beer sales of 26,522,000 barrels" by 1973. The St. Louis plant alone produced ten million barrels-per-year in 1964.
Busch, who was described as a showman and salesman, began using the Clydesdale horse-and-wagon team in 1933, bringing them into use to celebrate Prohibition's conclusion by sending a team "down Pennsylvania Avenue to deliver Budweiser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House." He made their image part of the company brand and made them appear regularly at public gatherings.
After a boardroom revolt backed by his son, August Busch III, Busch was forced to resign as CEO and chairman of the company in May 1975. He had been finding it difficult to work with in recent months as a result of his anxiety over the death of his youngest daughter at the age of 1974. He was allowed to serve as president of the Cardinals and enjoy the company's benefits only if he acted as a voluntary participant in the change.
Busch considered joining the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in an effort to regain his control, but decided he did not want to take the company away from the family, a move that was not made public for ten years. Busch's age was not known at any point during his lifetime. Busch family discords following the cession lasted for decades and was instrumental in InBev's 2008 takeover of the company.
Fred Saigh, the Cardinals' owner, was found guilty of tax evasion in 1953. He put the Cardinals up for auction after facing a nearly certain banishment from baseball. When Busch heard that Saigh was considering moving the team to Houston, he decided to get Anheuser-Busch to participate in order to keep the Cardinals in St. Louis.
In the end, Anheuser-Busch bought the Cardinals for $3.75 million, somewhat less than what Saigh was getting from the Houston suitors. Busch is said to have long believed that civic pride outweighed money in Saigh's decision. In truth, according to Anheuser-Busch biographer William Knoedelseder, Saigh's first choice had been to sell to local customers. Busch had been the first dependable customer to hold the team in place.
Busch spent six National League pennants (1964, 1967, 1968, 1982, 1985, and 1982) as chairman, president or CEO of the Cardinals from the time the club was owned by the brewery from 1953 to his death. The elder Busch remained as president of the Cardinals even though his son, August Busch III, was fired as president of Anheuser-Busch.
Despite the fact that the Cardinals were the most dominant baseball team in St. Louis, they did not have their own ballpark. They had rented Sportsman's Park from the St. Louis Browns of the American League since 1920. Busch Stadium was purchased and extensively renovated shortly after buying the Cardinals, renaming it Busch Stadium (but only after a failed attempt to rename it as Budweiser Stadium). The team played there before Busch Memorial Stadium was constructed in the middle of the 1966 season.
In 1984, the Cardinals cut a number, 85, in Busch's honour, which was his age at the time.