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  1. Edward Gresham Ball (March 21, 1888 – June 24, 1981) was a businessman who wielded powerful political influence in Florida for decades. Referred to as "a law unto himself", [1] : 21 despite the fact that he never held public office and did not own much of the assets he controlled, he led a forest products company, a railroad and ...

  2. Mar 11, 1979 · Ed Ball has been called a robber baron and political power broker, a clever man with a dollar and a dangerous man to cross, a courtly Virginiap with the ladies and a ruthless foe...

  3. Edward Gresham Ball (March 21, 1888 – June 24, 1981) was a businessman who wielded powerful political influence in Florida for decades.

  4. Jun 24, 1981 · Ball, working from a momento-cluttered office in Jacksonville, Fla., single-handedly built the $35 million duPont estate into an empire whose assets today are valued at nearly $2 billion. The ...

  5. Edward Gresham Ball (March 21, 1888 – June 24, 1981) was a businessman who wielded powerful political influence in Florida for decades. Referred to as a law unto himself,: 21 despite the fact that he never held public office and did not own much of the assets he controlled, he led a forest products

  6. Jul 24, 2021 · A series of subsequent shrewd business moves by Ball and DuPont, rebuilt DuPont’s fortune, and Ball became his financial adviser and lieutenant for the remaining 12 years of his life.

  7. He was a leader of the pro-segregation, anti-homosexual, and anti-communist Pork Chop Gang, a group of Democratic Party legislators from North Florida. Edward Gresham Ball (March 21, 1888 – June 24, 1981) was a financier who wielded powerful political influence in Florida for decades.