Dan duncan family

American businessman

Dan L. Duncan (January 2, 1933 – March 29, 2010) was an American entrepreneur born in Center, Texas.^[1][2] He was the co-founder, chairman and majority shareholder of Enterprise Products.

Early life and education

Duncan was born in 1933 in rural Shelby County, Texas.^[3] His father was a farmer.^[3] His mother died of tuberculosis when he was seven^[3] and his brother died of blood poisoning in the same year.^[4] He lived with his grandmother until he graduated from Shelbyville High School in 1949.^[4] He joined his father as a pipeliner and roughneck in the oil and gas fields.

Soon after his father also died of leukemia. Duncan served in the United States Army from 1953 to 1955 where he was stationed in Germany with radio communications after the Korean War.^[5] Upon leaving the army, he used the G.I. Bill to study business, finance and accounting^[3&