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Nicholas Mangione
Nicholas Mangione serving in the U.S. Navy, c. 1943–45
Born
Nicholas Bernard Mangione

(1925-02-17)February 17, 1925
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
DiedNovember 2, 2008(2008-11-02) (aged 83)
Towson, Maryland, U.S.
Alma materMaryland Institute College of Art
OccupationReal estate developer
Known forFounding Lorien Health Services
Spouse
Mary Cuba
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(m. 1950)​
Children10, including Louis Mangione
Relatives
Military service
AllegianceUnited States
Branch/serviceUnited States Navy
Years of service1943–1945

Nicholas Bernard Mangione (/ˌmændʒiˈoʊni/ MAN-jee-OH-nee,[1] Italian: [manˈdʒoːne];[2] February 17, 1925 – November 2, 2008) was an American real estate developer. He was the founder of Lorien Health Services and owner of the radio station WCBM, both in Baltimore. Mangione also owned country clubs, hotels, and resorts in the Baltimore area, including Hayfields Country Club and Turf Valley.[3] Mangione's descendants—10 children and some 37 grandchildren—remain a prominent family in Maryland business and politics.[4] He was a World War II veteran.[3]

Early life and education

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Mangione was born in Baltimore's Little Italy neighborhood on February 17, 1925.[5] He was the eldest son and the second of four children[6] born to a poor Italian immigrant family.[7] His father, Louis, born in Enna, Sicily,[8] was illiterate and worked for Baltimore's water department until he died of pneumonia when Nicholas was 11 years old.[3]

Mangione sold newspapers and peddled shopping bags at the Belair Market while he attended St. James the Less Commercial School. He was working his first full-time job as an accounts-receivable clerk at age 15 and later worked for a different company as a secretary-bookkeeper. In January 1943, a month before Mangione turned 18 years old, he enlisted in the United States Navy and reported to the destroyer USS Caperton. While serving aboard the Caperton, he fought in the Battle of the Philippine Sea.[3] After completing his military service, he returned to the U.S. in December 1945 and attended the Maryland Institute Evening School (now the Maryland Institute College of Art) until 1949. He then became a bricklaying contractor.[9]

Career

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In 1949, after two and a half years of working as a contractor, Mangione bought out his estimating partner, Michael Demarino,[9] and founded Mangione & Co., a contract-based construction company.[6] In 1977, Mangione founded the nursing home company Lorien Health Services.[10] His son Louis Mangione later became the owner.[11] In July 1970, Baltimore Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. appointed Mangione to the Baltimore City Board of Education.[12] Mangione's term expired on December 31, 1970, and he was succeeded by Stephen McNierney.[13]

Mangione purchased Turf Valley in Ellicott City, Maryland, in 1978.[14][15] The club underwent multiple renovations and expansions under Mangione's ownership.[16] In 1988, a group of Black businessmen in Howard County, Maryland criticized Mangione for not hiring enough minority managers at the country club, to which Mangione responded, "I have eight of my kids there. Do they expect me to fire one of them and put somebody else in their place?"[17] Turf Valley later became the center of a boycott after Mangione's nephew and resort manager Frederick B. Grimmel Jr. called a Black NAACP member the N-word during a taped conversation;[18] Mangione was reluctant to fire his nephew, first suspending Grimmel with pay but eventually firing him after pressure from the Black community increased.[17] As part of Grimmel's removal, Mangione signed an agreement calling on the U.S. Department of Justice's Community Relations Office to conduct sensitivity training for club employees and for the Howard County Office of Human Rights to investigate whether the country club was engaging in racially discriminatory hiring practices. The Humans Rights Office did so, and found no evidence of hiring discrimination.[19] Grimmel was rehired several months after his firing, and Mangione later told The Baltimore Sun that he believed he was unfairly criticized by the NAACP.[17]

Mangione alleged that people were skeptical of his success as a businessman because they assumed he must have received money from the Italian Mafia. He told The Baltimore Sun he had experienced discrimination in the 1970s at other country clubs such as the Baltimore Country Club and the Elkridge Club, stating that "It was because I was Italian, plain and simple."[3] He later said that attitudes at both clubs had changed since these incidents, but added that he would never play at either course again.[9]

In December 1986, Mangione purchased the 474-acre Hayfields farm in Hunt Valley, Maryland, for a price between $4 and $5 million, with the intention of developing a 1,600-house community.[20][21] Hayfields's previous owner, I. H. "Bud" Hammerman, similarly sought to redevelop the farmland into a 1,250-unit residential community, which failed to get zoning approval in 1980 and 1984 after facing opposition from community residents.[22][23] At the time of Mangione's purchase, Hayfields included seven historic structures, including an 186-year-old farmhouse[24] that housed Union and Confederate troops during the American Civil War.[25] After his initial proposal was rejected by the Baltimore County Planning Board in 1988,[26] Mangione proposed another plan to redevelop 226 of Hayfields's 474 acres to build 50 high-priced houses and a golf course on Hayfields,[23] which was approved by the county zoning board in July 1995.[27] Mangione then proposed another plan to redevelop the remaining 248 acres,[24] which was approved by the Baltimore County Planning Board in May 1996.[28] The Hayfields Country Club opened on July 24, 1998.[29]

Mangione purchased the conservative talk radio station WCBM in 1986. A supporter of conservative radio, Mangione later purchased two other conservative talk radio stations, WWLG and WASA.[5][30]

Nicholas Mangione and his family had close ties with the Greater Baltimore Medical Center, which has a ward named in honor of Mangione, and where all of his descendants have been born since 1938.[31][32]

Personal life and death

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Mangione had 10 children with his wife, Mary (née Cuba), six of whom graduated from Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore.[5] As of December 2024, he had 37 grandchildren,[33] including Nino Mangione, a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, and Luigi Mangione, who was arrested in December 2024 and charged with second-degree murder in connection with the killing of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare.[34]

Mangione died on November 2, 2008, at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center in Towson, Maryland, after suffering a stroke. He was 83 years old.[3] His wife, Mary, died in 2023.[35]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Nino Mangione - Maryland Delegate District 42. Republican Women Baltimore County. September 19, 2024. Event occurs at 00:11. Retrieved December 19, 2024 – via YouTube.
  2. ^ Migliorini, Bruno; Tagliavini, Carlo; Fiorelli, Piero; Borri, Tommaso Francesco. "Mangione". Dizionario di Ortografia e di Pronunzia della lingua italiana [Dictionary of Spelling and Pronunciation of the Italian Language] (in Italian). RAI. Retrieved December 13, 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Kelly, Jacques (November 4, 2008). "Nicholas B. Mangione, self-made real estate developer, dies at 83". The Baltimore Sun. Archived from the original on July 8, 2024. Retrieved December 9, 2024.
  4. ^ Thompson, Adam (December 10, 2024). "Luigi Mangione, person of interest in UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting, is related to prominent Maryland family". CBS News Baltimore. Retrieved December 9, 2024.
  5. ^ a b c Fenton, Justin; Smith, Brenna (December 9, 2024). "Luigi Mangione's sprawling family found success after patriarch's rise". The Baltimore Banner. Retrieved December 9, 2024.
  6. ^ a b Atwood, Liz (May 10, 1989). "Mangione heads family enterprise". The Baltimore Sun. p. 67. Retrieved December 10, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ Solomon, Libby (June 19, 2018). "Meet the candidates for state delegate in the District 42B primary". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved December 10, 2024.
  8. ^ "Unknown title". FamilySearch. Retrieved December 11, 2024.
  9. ^ a b c Coram, James M.; Gilbert, Patrick (July 17, 1995). "Fiery builder has softer side". The Baltimore Sun. pp. 81, 87. Retrieved December 12, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ Sundby, Alex; Li, Emma; Ferris, Layla; Doan, Laura (December 10, 2024). "What we know about Luigi Mangione, suspect charged in UnitedHeathcare CEO's killing". CBS News. Retrieved December 10, 2024.
  11. ^ Kilgannon, Corey; Baker, Mike; Broadwater, Luke; Hubler, Shawn (December 9, 2024). "Suspect in C.E.O. Killing Withdrew From a Life of Privilege and Promise". The New York Times. Retrieved December 9, 2024.
  12. ^ Parshall, Gerald (July 8, 1970). "Mangione Appointed to School Board; Tinley Resigns". The Evening Sun. p. 80. Retrieved December 12, 2024.
  13. ^ "3 Named To School Board". The Baltimore Sun. January 31, 1971. p. 95. Retrieved December 10, 2024.
  14. ^ De Marco, Donna (July 7, 1997). "Mangione family adding more turf". Baltimore Business Journal. Archived from the original on October 17, 2014. Retrieved December 9, 2024.
  15. ^ Jones, Sabrina (September 4, 2003). "Family Makes Resort Its Turf". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on December 10, 2024. Retrieved December 9, 2024.
  16. ^ Dieter, Lee C., ed. (December 1988). "December - Election Meeting - Turf Valley Country Club" (PDF). Mid-Atlantic Association of Golf Course Superintendents Newsletter. Vol. XXXXI, no. 10. Mid-Atlantic Association of Golf Course Superintendents. pp. 1, 5. Retrieved December 10, 2024 – via MSU Libraries.
  17. ^ a b c Atwood, Liz (May 10, 1989). "Mangione heads family enterprise". The Baltimore Sun. p. 77. Retrieved December 10, 2024.
  18. ^ Shen, Fern (January 23, 1989). "Howard County Racial Slur Still Rankles". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 10, 2024.
  19. ^ Clark, Michael J. (February 24, 1989). "Howard office finds no job bias at Turf Valley". The Baltimore Sun. p. 45. Retrieved December 10, 2024.
  20. ^ Erlandson, Robert A. (December 18, 1986). "Haysfield buyer wants to build $500,000 homes". The Baltimore Sun. p. 53. Retrieved December 10, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  21. ^ "Builder seeks land agreement". The Evening Sun. December 19, 1986. p. 58. Retrieved December 10, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  22. ^ "From one farm to 171 houses?". The Evening Sun. November 13, 1991. p. 54. Retrieved December 10, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  23. ^ a b Gilbert, Patrick (March 3, 1995). "Developer rebuffed on rezoning plea for project at Hunt Valley estate". The Baltimore Sun. p. 25. Retrieved December 10, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  24. ^ a b Atwood, Liz (February 19, 1996). "Developer to submit plan for Hayfields". The Baltimore Sun. p. 17. Retrieved December 10, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  25. ^ Erlandson, Robert A. (August 26, 1996). "Preservationists join Hayfields battle". The Baltimore Sun. p. 16. Retrieved December 10, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  26. ^ Carson, Larry (May 16, 1988). "'Hayfields', other tracts to stay farms, planners say". The Evening Sun. p. 33. Retrieved December 10, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  27. ^ Carson, Larry (July 4, 1995). "Hayfields golf plan gains OK". The Baltimore Sun. p. 9. Retrieved December 10, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  28. ^ Atwood, Liz (May 3, 1996). "Board accepts Hayfields project". The Baltimore Sun. p. 15. Retrieved December 10, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  29. ^ Atwood, Liz (July 22, 1998). "Gold-plated golf courses tee off". The Baltimore Sun. p. 1. Retrieved December 10, 2024.
  30. ^ Matysek, George P. Jr. (December 10, 2024). "New York murder suspect hails from prominent Catholic Mangione family in Baltimore". The Catholic Review. Retrieved December 11, 2024.
  31. ^ "The Countdown Begins..." Greater Baltimore Medical Center. September 12, 2022. Archived from the original on December 9, 2024. Retrieved December 10, 2024.
  32. ^ Dodds, Io (December 10, 2024). "Luigi Mangione's family: Prominent relatives 'shocked and devastated' by his murder arrest". The Independent. Retrieved December 10, 2024.
  33. ^ Kay, Grace; Long, Katherine; Shamsian, Jacob (December 11, 2024). "Luigi Mangione came from privilege. Then his spine gave out, he went off the grid, and he got a gun". Business Insider. Retrieved December 12, 2024.
  34. ^ Ng, Greg (December 9, 2024). "Man questioned in UnitedHealthcare CEO's killing has ties to Maryland". WBAL-TV. Retrieved December 9, 2024. Luigi Mangione is the cousin of Baltimore County Delegate Nino Mangione, R-District 42A, the lawmaker's office confirmed.
  35. ^ "The Latest: Suspect in United Healthcare CEO's killing charged with weapons, forgery, other charges". KPRC-TV. Associated Press. December 9, 2024. Retrieved December 10, 2024.
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