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chairman until retiring in 2002. Bernard Marcus was born to Russian Jewish immigrant parents in Newark, New Jersey. He

grew up in a tenement and graduated from South Side High School in

1947. Marcus wanted to become a doctor but could not afford the tuition,

so he worked for his father as a cabinet maker. He studied at Rutgers there he joined the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity. Marcus worked at a drugstore as a pharmacist but became more interested in

the retailing side of the business. He worked at a cosmetics company and various other retail jobs,

eventually reaching a position as CEO of Handy Dan Improvement Centers, a Los Angeles-based chain of home improvement stores. In 1978,

both he and future Home Depot co-founder Arthur Blank were fired during a corporate power struggle

at Handy Dan. In 1979, they co-founded the home-improvement retailer The Home Depot, with the help of merchandising expert Pat Farrah and New York investment banker Ken Langone who assembled a group of investors. The store

revolutionized the home improvement business with its warehouse concept. Blank,

Marcus, and Langone became billionaires. Marcus served as the company's first

CEO for 19 years and also served as chairman of the board until his retirement

in 2002. Marcus was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of

Fame in 2006. Marcus is one of several business tycoons who opposed the Employee Free Choice Act,

a controversial proposal they claim gives unfair advantage to labor unions. The

EFCA would outlaw conducting employee union votes with secret ballots while

allowing fines and injunctions when employees claim they are being punished for

union activity on the job. In

January 2014, Marcus founded the Job Creators Network, a

conservative advocacy group, with $500,000 in seed funding. In

2015, Marcus donated $1.5 million to Super PACs supporting Jeb Bush and Scott Walker. On June 1,

2016, Marcus publicly announced his support for Republican presumptive

presidential nominee Donald Trump. When Marcus

announced in 2019 that he would inancially

support the Donald Trump

2020 presidential campaign, it triggered calls for a boycott of Home

Depot even though Marcus was by then no longer with the company. In a June 2019

interview, Marcus said most of his wealth is in Home Depot stock. Marcus

co-founded the Israel Democracy Institute in

1991, contributing $5 million for the construction of the institute's building

in Jerusalem's Talbiya neighborhood and investing

hundreds of millions of shekels in its ongoing operation over

the years. He heavily contributed to the launch of the Georgia Aquarium, which opened in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, in 2005. Based mostly on the US$250M million donation

for the Aquarium, Marcus and his wife, Billi, were listed among the top

charitable donors in the country by The Chronicle of

Philanthropy in 2005. Marcus also funded and founded The

Marcus Institute, a center for the provision of services for children and

adolescents with developmental disabilities.

In May 2005, Marcus was awarded the Others Award by the Salvation Army, its highest honor. Marcus donated $25 million

to Autism Speaks to

spearhead its efforts to raise money for research on the causes and cure for

autism. He is an active member of the board of directors. Bernie and Billi

Marcus are signatories of The Giving Pledge, a commitment to give away the majority of

their wealth to philanthropic causes. Marcus is chairman of the Marcus

Foundation, whose focuses include children, medical research, free enterprise,