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The 100 Most Influential Irish Americans in Business: G. Dalton – P. Dolan

January 2000

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George D. Dalton Chairman Fiserv, Inc. Revenue: $1.5 billion Employees: 13,000 A well-known and highly respected business leader in the financial industry, George Dalton has spent over 40 years in financial data processing. Fiserv was born in 1984, when Dalton merged his company, First Data Processing (FDP) with Sunshine State Systems' data processing service. Since its … [Read more...] about The 100 Most Influential Irish Americans in Business: G. Dalton – P. Dolan

December 8, 1831

James Hoban, the Kilkenny born architect who designed the U.S. White house, died on this day in 1831. Hoban worked in Ireland as a wheelright and carpenter until his early twenties, when he was given an advanced student placement at the Dublin Society’s Drawing School. He excelled in his studies and became an apprentice under Cork architect Thomas Ivory. After the American Revolutionary War, he immigrated to Philadelphia and established his own architecture firm. In July 1792 he was named winner of the design competition for the White house in the new capitol of Washington, D.C. He rebuilt the South Portico following the 1814 fire.

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