Carol Martin “Bill” Gatton was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist.
Bill was born on May 25, 1932, in Bremen, Kentucky.
He graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1954, majoring in Business Administration and Economics.
Bill subsequently received an MBA Degree in 1958 from the Wharton Graduate School at the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in Finance and Banking.
Bill entered the U.S. Army as a Second Lieutenant and completed two years of active duty in 1956.
He established his first automobile dealership in Owensboro, Kentucky in 1959 and sold that business in 1965. He purchased the Chevrolet and Cadillac franchises in Bristol, Tennessee and moved there in 1967.
Bill has owned automobile dealerships in all three cities of the Tri-Cities, Lexington, Kentucky, Nashville and Clarksville, Tennessee, Huntsville, Alabama and Austin and San Antonio, Texas. Bill enjoyed the automobile business but also loved the real estate and banking industries
Carol Martin “Bill” Gatton died on Monday, April 18, 2022, at Ballad Hospital in Bristol, Tennessee.
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Bill Gatton was married with children, but he kept his family from the spotlight hence details about them are not available on the web.