Fred Trump
| Fred Trump | |
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| Born |
Frederick Christ Trump October 11, 1905 The Bronx, New York, U.S. |
| Died | June 25, 1999 (aged 93) New Hyde Park, New York, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Pneumonia |
| Resting place | Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery Queens, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Founder (1920) of Elizabeth Trump & Son Co. |
| Net worth |
 $250–$300 million (1999)
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| Spouse(s) | Mary Anne MacLeod (m. 1936) |
| Children | |
| Parent(s) |
Frederick Trump Elizabeth Christ Trump |
| Relatives | Trump family |
Frederick "Fred" Christ Trump (October 11, 1905 – June 25, 1999) was an American real estate developer and philanthropist, primarily in New York City, and father of Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States, and Maryanne Trump Barry, a United States Court of Appeals judge.
Trump and his mother, Elizabeth Christ Trump, lost Trump's father, Frederick, when Trump was 13 years old. By 15, in partnership with his mother and non-family investors, Trump had begun a career in home construction and sales. The development company was incorporated as E. Trump & Son in 1927, and grew to build and manage single-family houses in Queens, barracks and garden apartments for U.S. Navy personnel near major shipyards along the East Coast, and more than 27,000 apartments in New York City.
Trump was investigated by a U.S. Senate committee for wartime profiteering (1954), and by the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division for civil rights violations (1973). According to the New York Times and The Washington Post, the later incident inspired a song by tenant and folk singer, Woody Guthrie.
Frederick Christ Trump was born in the Bronx on October 11, 1905. Trump was one of three children of German immigrants Elizabeth (née Christ) and Frederick Trump. He had a younger brother John and an older sister Elizabeth Trump Walters (1904–1961). His father Frederick Trump, originally named Friedrich Trump, had immigrated to New York City in 1885 from the German village of Kallstadt, Palatinate (by then part of the Kingdom of Bavaria) and made a fortune in the Klondike Gold Rush. He then returned to Kallstadt and married Elisabeth Christ, an 11 years younger former neighbor's daughter, in 1902. Friedrich Trump's name was incorrectly recorded as Trumpf on the passenger list of his ship when he immigrated to the USA. Britt Peterson of The Boston Globe reports, based on the Blair biography, that the family had changed the spelling from the ancestral Drumpf, sometime during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648).
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