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Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington on
October 28, 1955. He is the son of William H. Gates Sr.
(1925–2020) and Mary Maxwell Gates (1929–1994). His ancestry
includes English, German, and Irish/Scots-Irish. His father
was a prominent lawyer, and his mother served on the board
of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and the United
Way of America. Gates's maternal grandfather was J. W.
Maxwell, a national bank president. Gates has an older
sister Kristi (Kristianne) and a younger sister Libby. He is
the fourth of his name in his family but is known as William
Gates III or "Trey" (i.e., three) because his father had the
"II" suffix. The family lived in the Sand Point area of
Seattle in a home that was damaged by a rare tornado when
Gates was seven years old.
Early in his life, Gates observed that his parents wanted
him to pursue a law career. When he was young, his family
regularly attended a church of the Congregational Christian
Churches, a Protestant Reformed denomination. Gates was
small for his age and was bullied as a child. The family
encouraged competition; one visitor reported that "it didn't
matter whether it was hearts or pickleball or swimming to
the dock; there was always a reward for winning and there
was always a penalty for losing".
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