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==Early life and family==
Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. was born on February 4, 1938, to [[Donald W. Riegle Sr.| Donald Wayne Riegle Sr.]], son of John Louis Riegle, owner of the Riegle Press and future mayor of Flint, MI and Dorothy Grace Riegle in [[Flint, Michigan]]. An avid Michigan fisher, Don taught his kin how to clean fish and would often leave delicately filed lake perch as a gratitude when he stayed at the family cabins. <ref>{{cite web|url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-2013102?byte=39287815;focusrgn=bioghist;subview=standard;view=reslist | title= Biography of Donald W. Riegle Jr. at Bentley Historical Library}}</ref> Riegle is a graduate of [[Flint Central High School]].
 
He attended Flint Junior College (now [[Mott Community College]]) and [[Western Michigan University]], graduated with a B.A in business administration and economics from the [[University of Michigan–Flint|University of Michigan, Flint]] in 1960, and received an M.B.A. in finance from [[Michigan State University]] in 1961.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.umflint.edu/archives/donald-w-riegle-jr | title= DONALD W. RIEGLE, JR. ARCHIVES}}</ref> Riegle was employed by IBM as a financial analyst from 1961 to 1964. He completed required course work for doctoral studies in business and government relations at Harvard Business School, 1964 to 1966 before he left to run for Congress. Riegle taught at Michigan State University, [[Boston University]], the [[University of Southern California]], and [[Harvard University]].
 
He was married to Nancy Brandt in 1957 before divorcing her in 1971. They had three children, Caetherine "Caethe", Laurie, and Donald III. In 1972, Riegle married Meredith Ann White, the niece of [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States| Supreme Court Justice]] [[Byron White]], before divorcing her in 1977. In 1978, Riegle married Lori L. Hansen, a staffer in Senator [[Gaylord Nelson| Gaylord Nelson's]] office. They had two children, Ashley and Allison Elizabeth.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-2013102?byte=39287815;focusrgn=bioghist;subview=standard;view=reslist | title= Biography of Donald W. Riegle Jr. at Bentley Historical Library}}</ref>
 
==Political life==