E. Bronson Ingram II

E. Bronson Ingram II (1931–1995) was an American billionaire heir and business executive. He served as the Chairman of Ingram Industries from 1963 to 1995. He was a director and large shareholder of Weyerhaeuser. He was tried and acquitted of corruption regarding a Chicago sewage deal in the 1970s.

Early life Erskine Bronson Ingram II was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota on November 27, 1931, the son of millionaire businessman Orrin Henry Ingram, Sr. and Hortense Bigelow Ingram. His family moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1948. At Princeton, he majored in English, and belonged to the Republican Club. E.B. Ingram was acquitted but his brother Frederic was convicted. By 1978, they split the company. In 1988, he owned 222,380 shares.

In 1993, he nominated the first African-American accepted for membership in the Belle Meade Country Club. They moved to New Orleans, where the Ingram Corporation was headquartered, but moved back to Nashville in 1961.