Pete Estes

Elliot Marantette "Pete" Estes (January 7, 1916 – March 24, 1988) was an American automotive engineer and executive; he is best known as the fifteenth president of General Motors, from 1974 to 1981.

[1] He is descended on his mother's side from Patrick Marantette and Francis Mouton, early settlers in 1830s Mendon who were from Detroit and of French ancestry.

[1] At the suggestion of a cousin, he applied to the General Motors Institute (now Kettering University), an engineering institute started in Flint, Michigan, that had a cooperative study program combining work experience in the automotive industry.

There he worked with Charles Kettering and later oversaw the successful introduction of the Oldsmobile Rocket V8 engine.

He died of a heart attack at O'Hare Airport on March 24, 1988, while on his way to a board meeting.