Ex-US Sen. Herb Kohl, former Milwaukee bucks owner, dies at 88
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Source: The Hill
12/27/23 7:16 PM ET
Former Milwaukee Bucks owner and Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) has died at the age of 88 after a brief illness. The Herb Kohl Foundation announced his passing Wednesday afternoon, memorializing him as someone who “always put people first.”
“Throughout his life, Herb Kohl always put people first — from his employees and their families to his customers and countless charitable organizations and efforts,” JoAnne Anton, director of giving for Herb Kohl Philanthropies, recalled. “Herb Kohl Way isn’t just the name of a street in front of the Fiserv Forum. The Herb Kohl Way perfectly sums up a legacy of humility, commitment, compromise, and kindness to countless people he worked with, served and helped along the way. Those values will live on through his Foundation.”
Kohl, who grew up in Milwaukee’s Sherman Park neighborhood, according to TMJ4 News, joined the Army Reserve after graduating from the University of Wisconsin with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1956 and earning a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from Harvard in 1958.
Following his graduation from Harvard, Kohl enrolled in the United States Army Reserve, of which he was a member between 1958 and 1964. Aside from his career in the Senate, Kohl opened and built a chain of over 50 Kohl’s grocery stores across the Midwest with his brothers, becoming a retail shopping magnate. Kohl’s family opened the first Kohl’s department store in 1962.
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If you weren't from WI but had been a CSPAN junkie, you knew who he was! R.I.P.
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Former U.S. Senator and Milwaukee Bucks owner Herb Kohl has died at the age of 88 after a brief illness. The Herb Kohl Foundation announced his passing Wednesday afternoon, memorializing him as someone who “always put people first.”
“Throughout his life, Herb Kohl always put people first — from his employees and their families to his customers and countless charitable organizations and efforts,” JoAnne Anton, director of giving for Herb Kohl Philanthropies, recalled. “Herb Kohl Way isn’t just the name of a street in front of the Fiserv Forum. The Herb Kohl Way perfectly sums up a legacy of humility, commitment, compromise, and kindness to countless people he worked with, served and helped along the way. Those values will live on through his Foundation.”
Kohl, who grew up in Milwaukee’s Sherman Park neighborhood, according to TMJ4 News, joined the Army Reserve after graduating from the University of Wisconsin with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1956 and earning a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from Harvard in 1958.
Following his graduation from Harvard, Kohl enrolled in the United States Army Reserve, of which he was a member between 1958 and 1964. Aside from his career in the Senate, Kohl opened and built a chain of over 50 Kohl’s grocery stores across the Midwest with his brothers, becoming a retail shopping magnate. Kohl’s family opened the first Kohl’s department store in 1962.
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I am honored to be a Kohl Fellow. He was a very nice man and did so much for education and sports and more. He sold the Bucks for less than he could’ve gotten, on the condition that they stay in Milwaukee. 
