Famous Americans with Russian roots: Michael Bloomberg

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Michael Bloomberg is an American politician and business man. Bloomberg was the mayor of New York for 3 terms, starting in the 2001 year. Due to his $ 38,5 billion, he is ranked 10 in the ranking of the richest Americans and 13 in the global ranking. He is also actively involved in charity.

The story of his life told the project "Museum of Russian-American Heritage".

Michael Bloomberg was born in Boston, into a Jewish family. His paternal grandfather, Elik Bloomberg, emigrated from Russia at the end of the 19th century, and his maternal grandfather, Max Rubens, came from Belarus, at that time - part of the Russian Empire.

Bloomberg graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1964 with a degree in Electrical Engineering, but then decided to change his professional path by enrolling at Harvard Business School, which he successfully graduated from.

In 1973, Bloomberg became a partner in the New York brokerage Salomon Brothers, where he was engaged in trading securities and the creation of automated systems. In 1981, he was fired, but with a good payoff of $ 10 million. He invested this money in the creation of his own company, Innovative Market Systems, which earned on Wall Street's need for high-quality trade information delivered quickly and conveniently. This is how the famous Bloomberg terminals appeared. The first client of the company was the giant Merrill Lynch, for which Bloomberg installed the 22 Market Master terminal. In total, 8 years later, 8 thousands of terminals have already been operating throughout America.

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Since then, Bloomberg has become one of the richest Americans. He owns at least 13 villas around the world, and he himself will be one of the first buyers of the first personal convertoplan AW609. At the same time, he is one of the largest American philanthropists: his Bloomberg Philanthropies Foundation donated almost $ 1,2 billion.

In 2002, Bloomberg became 108 mayor of New York, and then, in 2005 and 2009, set a sort of record, having won re-election twice in a row.

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He achieved fame (or infamy, depending on the political views of the observer) by applying statistical methods with clear expected parameters to city management, giving officials broad autonomy, and breaking with 190 years of tradition by introducing the Wall Street system of open meetings among dozens of top officials. different ranks in one large hall - for greater transparency and efficiency.

In addition, his views on domestic and foreign security issues made him unpopular with both conservatives and liberals. On the one hand, he insisted that deporting 12 million illegal immigrants was an unrealistic “fantasy,” and on the other hand, he supported the creation of a federal biometric database for illegal immigrants and the tough immigration reform proposed by John McCain.

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Bloomberg was married to Susan Brown, who bore him 2 daughters, Emma and Georgina, who became the heroines of a documentary about the children of the richest Americans Born Rich. From 2010, he lives in a civil marriage with Diana Taylor.

In 2014, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II made Bloomberg a Knight of the Order of the British Empire. He may not use the traditional title "Sir"; he may add the honorific "KBE" (Knight of the British Empire) after his name on official documents, although he almost never does so.

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