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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Lorenzo Creighton
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Lorenzo Creighton.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Physical Description
1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 52 min., 12 sec.)) : sound, color.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Corporate executive Lorenzo David Creighton was born on January 5, 1953 in Waterloo, Iowa. Creighton received his B.A. degree in political science from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa in 1975; and his J.D. degree from Drake Law School in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1988. Creighton began his career in the gaming industry as deputy director for Iowa Racing Gaming Commission in 1989. After the Iowa legislature passed the Riverboat Gambling Bill, Creighton was responsible for drafting the regulations and Iowa's first casino was opened in 1991. Creighton held several positions within the gaming industry, including MGM Mirages' president and chief operating officer of New York New York Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas in 2005. The appointment made Creighton the first African American property president on the Las Vegas' strip. In 2015 he was appointed president of MGM National Harbor, a $1.3 billion project in the Washington, D.C. area.
Variant and related titles
History Makers video oral history with Lorenzo Creighton
Lorenzo Creighton
HistoryMakers. OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 04, 2021
Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Performers
Denise Gines, interviewer.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Internet videos.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Oral histories.
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Also listed under
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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