Who is behind United States Steel Corporation?

Also known as U.S. Steel, United States Steel

Shows documented founders, leaders, board members, funders and owners.

Not who made decisions, or why.

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On the record

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Led by

Henry Clay Frick chair of 1892 chairman as Carnegie Steel Company (until 1901) Primary record 1

Board

J. P. Morgan Jr. board member of 1915 Primary record 2

Owners

Andrew Carnegie owns a stake in 1892 as Carnegie Steel Company (until 1901) Self-published 3
In his own words, the controlling owner in 1892.

Proof 3 sources

Investigation of the Employment of Pinkerton Detectives in Connection with the Labor Troubles at Homestead, Pa. (House Miscellaneous Document 335), U.S. House of Representatives, 52nd Congress (scan via Internet Archive), 1892. Primary record
H. C. Frick; residence, Pittsburg ; chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company, Limited.
Industrial Relations: Final Report and Testimony, Vol. IX (Colorado strike, foundations and industrial control; testimony of J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, Sr.), U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations (scan via Internet Archive), 1916. Primary record
John Pierpont Morgan, director United States Steel Corporation, Northern Pacific Railway, and other corporations
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, Andrew Carnegie, Houghton Mifflin (text via Project Gutenberg #17976), 1920. Self-published
Workmen had been killed at the Carnegie Works, of which I was the controlling owner.

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