Businessman. He was an American businessman who helped to build the soft drink Dr. Pepper into a global success. From 1933 to 1935, he attended the University of Alabama on a working scholarship, after attending Howard University for one semester on a football scholarship that was cancelled with a knee injury. W.W. Clements, known to everyone as "Foots" has one huge claim to fame, and that was his love of the soft drink, Dr. Pepper. In the 1930's, he owned a café and met a customer who would drink nothing else but Dr. Pepper, and it intrigued "Foots". Soon he was driving a soda delivery truck, and his life long love for the beverage stuck. He worked his way up the ranks from delivery truck driver to C.E.O., and he is as responsible as anyone for the drink's success. He also founded the Dr. Pepper Museum in Waco, Texas. He retired from the company in 1986, but always retained a love for the drink.
Businessman. He was an American businessman who helped to build the soft drink Dr. Pepper into a global success. From 1933 to 1935, he attended the University of Alabama on a working scholarship, after attending Howard University for one semester on a football scholarship that was cancelled with a knee injury. W.W. Clements, known to everyone as "Foots" has one huge claim to fame, and that was his love of the soft drink, Dr. Pepper. In the 1930's, he owned a café and met a customer who would drink nothing else but Dr. Pepper, and it intrigued "Foots". Soon he was driving a soda delivery truck, and his life long love for the beverage stuck. He worked his way up the ranks from delivery truck driver to C.E.O., and he is as responsible as anyone for the drink's success. He also founded the Dr. Pepper Museum in Waco, Texas. He retired from the company in 1986, but always retained a love for the drink.
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