Thomas C. Foley
| Tom Foley | |
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| United States Ambassador to Ireland | |
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In office October 18, 2006 – January 20, 2009 |
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| President | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | James Kenny |
| Succeeded by | Dan Rooney |
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| Born |
January 9, 1952 Evanston, Illinois, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
Thomas Coleman "Tom" Foley (born January 9, 1952) is an American politician and businessman. He served as the United States Ambassador to Ireland from 2006 to 2009, and was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for Governor of Connecticut in 2010 and 2014.
Foley is one of six children of Catherine Coleman Foley and Gifford Pinchot Foley (both deceased). He went to both Phillips Academy Andover and Kent School and then received a B.A. in Economics from Harvard and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He is no relation to former House Speaker Tom Foley.
Foley first worked at McKinsey & Company and then at Citicorp Venture Capital. He left CVC to found NTC Group, a private investment company, in 1985. That year, NTC Group (also known as National Textile Corp) purchased the Bibb Company in Macon, Georgia. NTC purchased T.B. Woods Sons Company in 1986 and Stevens Aviation in 1989. NTC sold its interest in Bibb in 1996. In April 2007, T.B. Woods was sold to ALTRA Holdings. Woods, a manufacturing company headquartered in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, had operations in North America, Germany, Italy, and India, 2005 revenue of about $110.9 million and about 830 employees.
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