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Thomas N. McCarter, III, 76, was named to the board of directors of Southern Union Company in January 2005. He is chairman of the board’s Investment Committee and a member of the board’s Audit and Independent Directors’ Committees.
Since 1974, McCarter has been a general partner in W.P. Miles Timber Properties, New Orleans.
He began his finance career in 1967 with Trainer, Wortham & Co., Inc., New York City, and left as executive vice president and director in 1971. He went on to achieve success as an investment counseling executive and in several other businesses. From 1985 to 1989, McCarter served as executive vice president of Yorke McCarter Owen & Bartles, New York City, and from 1988 to 1990 he served as president of Mentor Management Group, New York City.
In addition to his directorship with Southern Union, he is chairman of Ramapo Land Company, Sloatsburg, New York; vice chairman of Runnymede Capital management, Inc., Chatham, New Jersey; a director of Anker Coal Group, Morgantown, Kentucky; a director of the Institute of Scientific Investment and Governance, Tokyo; and serves on the advisory board of the Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Throughout his career, McCarter has been on the boards of several public and private companies, including serving as chairman of Stillrock Management from 1992 to 1996, and director of Nuvelo, Inc., from 1996 to 2004. He has also served as chairman and president of several major non-profit organizations.
McCarter is a 1951 graduate of Princeton University.
He resides in Palm Beach, Florida.
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