Morry Taylor

Maurice Taylor Jr. (born August 28, 1944) is an American businessman, author, and political candidate. He is the chairman of Titan International, a tire and wheel manufacturing company, after having served as Titan's president and chief executive officer from 1990 to 2005 and as chairman and chief executive officer from 2005 until his retirement as chief executive in December 2016. Taylor, nicknamed "the Grizz" for his bear-like gruffness and tough negotiating style, started in tool and die manufacturing before purchasing Titan Wheel International from Firestone.

Taylor was born in Detroit, Michigan, and raised in Ellsworth, Michigan. Outside the business world, he gained brief national attention for his unsuccessful bid for the Republican nomination in the 1996 U.S. presidential election, a campaign later chronicled in his book Kill All the Lawyers – And Other Ways to Fix the Government and featured in Michael Lewis's campaign reporting and book Trail Fever. He spent over $6 million on the campaign, but received about 1% of the vote in the primaries in which he ran. Taylor was also one of the subjects on the 19th episode of PRI's This American Life entitled "Rich Guys", originally aired in 1996.

In 2013, Taylor drew international criticism in France after sending a widely publicized letter to French industry minister Arnaud Montebourg declining to invest in a Goodyear-owned factory and deriding French workers and labor practices.