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A native of England, Worthington arrived in the U.S. at age 5. His father was a coal miner who found work with area farmers when the mines were shut down. Young Leslie Worthington worked in a general store to help with family expenses and also worked hard in school, earning a scholarship for full tuition to the University of Illinois. In 1923, fresh out of college, he went to work for U.S. Steel’s South Chicago Works as a sales trainee, quickly rising through the ranks. By 1942, he was into general administration, where he served as vice president and later as president of the U.S. Steel Supply Division. Eventually, he was appointed president and chief administrative officer of U.S. Steel, headquartered in Pittsburgh. During his tenure as president, Worthington finished the long process of consolidation, begun in 1935, by which U.S. steel was transformed from a holding company to an operating company.
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