Philip D. Kaltenbacher
American politician
Philip D. Kaltenbacher (born November 7, 1937) is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Seton Company and a former chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Biography
Kaltenbacher was born on November 7, 1937, in Orange, New Jersey, to Joseph C. Kaltenbacher and Helen (Lowy) Kaltenbacher. Kaltenbacher graduated from Newark Academy in 1955 and received his B.A. from Yale University in 1959, where he was an editor of the Yale Daily News. After serving in the U.S. Army Intelligence Corps, he received his law degree from Yale Law School in 1963 and was admitted to the Bar in Connecticut in 1963 and in New Jersey in 1964. In 1964, Kaltenbacher joined Seton Company, Inc., a leading global supplier of leather for automotive interiors and a manufacturer of chemicals and coated products. He served as Seton's chairman and chief executive officer from 1974 to 2011. In 1987 Kaltenbacher led a group of investors who took Seton private and in 1994 Seton formed an employee stock ownership plan, granting Seton employees a significant ownership interest in the Company.
Kaltenbacher was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly in 1967, and was re-elected in 1969 and 1971. He ran on a ticket with Thomas Kean, who would later serve as Governor of New Jersey. Then a resident of West Orange, New Jersey, Kaltenbacher resumed his career in public service when he became a commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in 1983.
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