Lee Smith Bickmore was the CEO of Nabisco

Nabisco

Nabisco is an American brand of cookies and snacks. Headquartered in East Hanover, New Jersey, the company is a subsidiary of Illinois-based Kraft Foods. Nabisco's plant in Chicago, a production facility at 7300 S...

. Bickmore began his employment with Nabisco as a salesman in Pocatello, Idaho

Pocatello, Idaho

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. He later lived from many years in Short Hills, New Jersey

Short Hills, New Jersey

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. He was living in Vero Beach, Florida

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 at the time of his death.

BIckmore was born in Paradise, Utah

Paradise, Utah

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. He held degrees from the University of Utah

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 and Harvard Business School

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.

Bickmore was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. After being president of Nabisco he served for a time as special consultant to the First Presidency

First Presidency (LDS Church)

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 for business operations, finances, buildings, communication and other related matters. Prior to this point Bickmore had held several callings in New York and New Jersey in the Sunday School and Young Men

Young Men (organization)

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 as well as having served as a member of the New York New York stake high council.

In the 1960s Bickmore served as an associate to Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students...

's fundraising campaign.

Sources

• New York Times obituary
• Richard O. Cowan. The Latter-day Saint Century. (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1998) p. 216.
• Ensign, Nov. 1972, p. 84

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