Frederic B. Ingram

Frederic B. Ingram grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. His father, Orrin Henry Ingram, Sr., was a business magnate. His mother is Hortense Bigelow. He had a brother, E. Bronson Ingram II, who died in 1995. His great-great-great-grandfather, David Ingram, had immigrated from Leeds, England, in 1780. His great-grandfather, Orrin Henry Ingram, was a lumber baron in Wisconsin. His grandfather, Erskine B. Ingram, was a lumber baron and businessman. He attended Vanderbilt University and Princeton University, graduating in 1952. ==Career==

Ingram inherited Ingram Corp. with his brother from their late father in 1963. In 1970, he acquired the Great Plains Construction Co., an oil and gas pipeline and water line construction company headquartered in Lubbock, Texas, which became a subsidiary of the Ingram Corp. Ingram pleaded innocent. However, while his brother was acquitted, Ingram was charged on 29 counts and sentenced to four years in prison. He was jailed in federal prison for 16 months. In 1985, Ingram sued William F. Earthman, the former Chairman of the Commerce Union Bank, a Nashville-based bank, over the repayment of a private loan. He won the lawsuit. ==Personal life and death==

Ingram renounced his United States citizenship and moved to Monaco after his sentence was commuted. They resided in Beverly Hills, California. Ingram died on August 26, 2015. ==See also==