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    Robert Stempel

    Jun 09, 2020 3 minutes
    BY THOMAS A. DeMAURO
    PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF GENERAL MOTORS

    FROM AN AUTO MECHANIC IN

    Bloomfield, New Jersey, to chairman and CEO of General Motors and owning a home in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, engineer Robert C. (Bob) Stempel steadily rose through the ranks at the storied automaker during his 34-year tenure.

    Born during the Depression on July 15, 1933, in Trenton, Stempel had two brothers and a sister. The imposing, 6-foot, 4-inch teenager, a class-of-1951 Bloomfield High School graduate, found his interest in in 1996.

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