Patrick E. Haggerty
Co-founder 1951Background
Patrick Eugene Haggerty was born in Harvey, North Dakota, in 1914 and studied electrical engineering at Marquette University. He joined Geophysics Service Incorporated in 1945 after serving as a procurement officer in the US Navy during World War II, where he developed deep expertise in military electronics sourcing and an acute sense of where electronics technology was heading. Haggerty's intellectual contribution to TI was primarily strategic rather than technical: he possessed an extraordinary ability to identify emerging technology trends years before markets recognized them and to commit organizational resources to those trends with conviction and precision. He understood that the transistor was not merely a replacement for the vacuum tube but a transformative technology that would make electronics miniaturized, reliable, and affordable enough for mass applications—a vision he pursued through TI's silicon transistor development, its integrated circuit work, and its consumer product initiatives.