Bruce Thomas Halle[2][3] (May 27, 1930 – January 4, 2018) was an American businessman, and the founder and chairman of Discount Tire.
[6][2][7] His French-Canadian grandfather, Alfred Antoine Halle, had come to Berlin, New Hampshire, from Quebec in the mid-1880s with his wife and two sons.
[6] As a young boy, during the Great Depression, he supported his family by delivering newspapers, cutting grass and digging graves.
[9] In 1942, his family moved to Detroit, where Fred worked as a security guard at the Ford Motor Company's Rouge River plant in Michigan.
[7] He tried unsuccessfully to form a partnership with his high school friend, Bill DiDonato, on an auto supply distribution company in Ypsilanti, Michigan and by late 1959, the business went bankrupt.
[18] In 2016 at the direction of Halle, Discount Tire stores in Maricopa County posted "Re-Elect Sheriff Joe Arpaio" signs in their windows.
"[22] In 2016, he donated $1 million to Arizonans for Responsible Drug Policy in an effort to stop cannabis legalization in Arizona.