Bruce Halle

Early life and education Bruce Halle was born on May 27, 1930, in Springfield, Massachusetts His French-Canadian grandfather, Alfred Antoine Halle, had come to Berlin, New Hampshire, from Quebec in the mid-1880s with his wife and two sons. Bruce's parents returned home with their two sons to Berlin, where they would lived with Molly's parents at a home few blocks from St. Kieran's Catholic Church. His father became a firefighter at the Berlin Fire Department and later made deputy chief.

Career After graduating from college, he took a series of jobs by selling cars and life insurance.

In 1960, he borrowed $400 It later became known as Discount Tire, and grew to over 1000 stores in 28 states by 2018.

Philanthropy Through the Bruce T. Halle Family Foundation, he made charitable donations to the Diane Halle Center for Family Justice at Arizona State University and to the Children First Academy, the nation's largest school for homeless children. and the Diane M. Halle Library on Endicott College's campus is named after his second wife.

He had a collection of 400 lithographs from the earliest days of tire advertisements. The Diane and Bruce Halle Collection is a private collection of 20th- and 21st-century art from Latin America based in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Political activities In 2016 at the direction of Halle, Discount Tire stores in Maricopa County posted "Re-Elect Sheriff Joe Arpaio" signs in their windows.

Halle was also a supporter of the Tea Party movement throughout the Obama Presidency, including his financial support for the "Tea Party Patriots Citizen Fund" and "Tea Party Leadership Fund". He was a financial supporter of the National Association for Gun Rights, an organization self-described as "Accepting 'NO COMPROMISE' on the issue of gun control."

In 2016, he donated $1 million to Arizonans for Responsible Drug Policy in an effort to stop cannabis legalization in Arizona.

Personal life Halle married his childhood sweetheart, Geraldine "Gerry" Konfara Halle, in the late 1940s, According to his biographer, Gerry's death was a "huge, huge blow" to him. ten years later in 1999. Diane was a widow of another Arizona millionaire. They lived in Paradise Valley, Arizona.

Halle died on January 4, 2018, at the age of 87. He was survived by three children, his wife, a brother, and two sisters.