Mr. Taylor founded Enterprise Rent-A-Car in 1957, originally named Executive Leasing. He is an emeritus trustee of Washington University in St. Louis, and founder of Enterprise Rent-A-Car Foundation, established in 1982 to donate primarily to nonprofit organizations in the communities where Enterprise employees work and live. Mr. Taylor has also given substantial personal gifts to such causes as the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Missouri Botanical Garden, the preservation of historic Forest Park, the National Flight Academy at the US Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola and scholarships for financially disadvantaged students at Washington University in St. Louis. He helped establish Enterprise Rent-A-Car Institute for Renewable Fuels and Taylor Fund for the Environment, both at Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis. Mr. Taylor briefly attended Westminster College in Fulton, MO, and Washington University in St. Louis, before enlisting in the US Navy after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He became an F6F Hellcat fighter pilot and saw combat duty in the Pacific Theater from the decks of the aircraft carriers USS Essex and USS Enterprise, for which he later named his company. Mr. Taylor was decorated with two Distinguished Flying Crosses.