Henry W. Bloch

Henry W. Bloch

Henry W. Bloch (b. July 30, 1922 [http://hrblock.com/presscenter/about/hbbio.jsp Biography of Bloch] from the H&R Block website] ) is the co-founder and (since 2000) the chairman "emeritus" of H&R Block. Henry and his brother, Richard Bloch, founded H&R Block in 1955 in Kansas City, Missouri.

Personal life

Bloch was born in Kansas City. He attended Southwest High School, and was an undergraduate at University of Missouri–Kansas City and the University of Michigan, graduating from Michigan in 1944. Through the Army Air Corps he received graduate training at the Harvard Business School.

Bloch and his wife Marion married in 1951 and live in the Kansas City metropolitan area.

The Henry Wollman Block fountain in front of Union Station in Kansas City is named in his honor, as is The Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration at the University of Missouri–Kansas City [ [http://www.bloch.umkc.edu/about-the-bloch-school/about-henry-bloch/index.aspx About Henry Bloch] from the UMKC Bloch School website] and the Bloch Building, a major addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Mr. Bloch was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 2001.

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