The Home Depot co-founder Bernard "Bernie" Marcus, one of the region’s biggest benefactors, has died. He was 95 years old. “The entire Home Depot family is deeply saddened,” the company said in a prepared statement. “We owe an immeasurable debt of gratitude to Bernie. He was a master merchant and a retail visionary.”

A man of second acts, Marcus started Home Depot after getting fired from another retailer. He then became a philanthropist, a Republican megadonor and an evangelist of capitalism.

Bernie Marcus co-founded The Home Depot in 1978 and became a billionaire, giving big donations to Republican politicians like Donald Trump.