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Henry Ford was an American industrialist and business magnate who founded the Ford Motor Company in 1903. He is credited with making automobiles affordable for middle-class Americans through the system known as Fordism, and with introducing the Ford Model T in 1908.
Henry Ford was born on the 30th of July 1863 on a farm in Greenfield Township, Michigan. He died on the 7th of April 1947 at age 83 from a cerebral hemorrhage at his estate, Fair Lane, in Dearborn, Michigan.
On the 5th of January 1914, Henry Ford announced a $5 daily wage, raising minimum daily pay from $2.34 to $5 for qualifying male workers. The move more than doubled the rate of most of his workers and drew the best mechanics in Detroit to his company.
Ford produced a final total of 15,007,034 Model T cars before production ended as late as 1927. That record stood for the next 45 years and was achieved in 19 years from the car's 1908 introduction.
Henry Ford promoted antisemitism through his newspaper The Dearborn Independent, which he bought in 1918, and through the book The International Jew, which sold more than 500,000 copies. He is the only American mentioned favorably in Hitler's Mein Kampf, and in 1938 he received Nazi Germany's Grand Cross of the German Eagle.
Henry Ford opposed American entry into World War II and served on the board of the America First Committee, but his company built a vast aircraft plant at Willow Run near Detroit. There Ford produced 9,000 B-24 bombers, finishing one every 58 minutes by 1945.
After his son Edsel died in 1943 and strokes left him debilitated, Henry Ford was sidelined as executives ran the company in his name. In 1945 his wife Clara and Edsel's widow Eleanor, who held three-quarters of the shares, demanded he cede control to his grandson Henry Ford II.