Joseph D. Williams

(1926- ) lived in Lincoln and Beatrice. Salesman and corporate executive, he devoted a 46-year career to Warner Lambert, manufacturer and marketer of pharmaceutical, consumer health care, and confectionery products that ranked among the 100 largest industrial companies in the United States before it merged with Pfizer in 2001; as president and CEO from 1979 to 1991 he eliminated non-core business and product lines, increased annual revenues from 2 to 5 billion dollars, and brought scientific discovery from laboratory to the marketplace, resulting in new products of much benefit to the world; recipient of many awards and recognized for fundraising by United Negro College Fund and other organizations. Consult Wall Street Journal, November 28, 1984, p. 18 and Forbes, November 17, 1986, pp. 178, 180 and Omaha World Herald, February 12, 1994, pp. 23, 25 and International Directory of Company Histories, Vol 10 (St. James Press, 1995) 549-552.

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