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SC JOHNSON HEAD MORE THAN JUST A BUSINESSMAN SAMUEL JOHNSON DIES AT 76.(METRO)(Obituary)

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From: The Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Date: 20040524
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RACINE (AP) -- Samuel Johnson became a billionaire by expanding his great-grandfather's wax company into the consumer products giant SC Johnson.

But Johnson, who died of cancer Saturday at his home in Wind Point at age 76, was more than just a businessman. He was a philanthropist and environmentalist who deeply cared about his hometown of Racine and the rest of the world, friends and colleagues say.

"My thoughts of Sam were not really as a business person," Racine Mayor Gary Becker. "I think of him as a visionary for ideas and the community -- more of a humanitarian than ...

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