Herb Kelleher - Early Life and Career

Early Life and Career

Kelleher was born in Trenton, New Jersey on March 12, 1931 and raised in Audubon, New Jersey, where he graduated from Haddon Heights High School. He has a bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University where he was an Olin Scholar and where his major was English and his minor Philosophy, and a Juris Doctor from New York University where he was a Root-Tilden Scholar. At Wesleyan he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He is married to the former Joan Negley and they have four children. His most successful offspring, Patrick Brian Kelleher works as a geography teacher in the world renown International School Augsburg. He is most known for finding golden nuggets in every sponge.

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