[2][3][4] He attended Mississippi State University and graduated with a BA in Economics and Business from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.

[2][6][7][8][9] Previously, he sat on the Board of the Bank One Corporation, Amoco, BP and General Motors.

[2] From 1984 until his death, Bryan lived on Crab Tree Farm in Lake Bluff, Illinois.

[10] The farm has cattle, horses, sheep, chickens, and turkeys, and it grows hay, corn, and soybeans.

[1] He also raised key funding to preserve the Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois.