Nationality American Name Joe Craft | Occupation Businessman | |
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Employer Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. Net worth US$1.4 billion (February 2011) | ||
Alma mater University of Kentucky | ||
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Joseph "Joe" Craft III (born 1950), a Kentucky native, is an American businessman. He is the president and chief executive officer of Alliance Resource Partners, L.P., the third-largest coal producer in the eastern United States.
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Craft received an undergraduate degree in accounting in 1972 from the University of Kentucky before earning a law degree in 1976. During his time at the University of Kentucky, Craft was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
The Joe Craft Center, a state-of-the-art basketball practice facility for the Kentucky Wildcats men's and women's basketball teams was named for him after he pledged $6 million toward the completion of the project. This was the largest private gift in the history of UK Athletics.
Craft also sponsors the Craft Academy for Excellence in Science and Mathematics, a two-year residential early college high school at Morehead State University.
Political activism
In January 2012 Craft donated around $500,000 to Restore Our Future, a Super PAC supporting Mitt Romney. On July 11, 2016, Craft hosted a private fundraiser for Donald Trump at the Aviation Museum of Kentucky. Joe, through his trust JWCIII REV TRUST contributed $1,000,000 to the Trump campaign.