death_date death_place birth_place name birth_date image article_title birth_name occupation death_cause
9 august 1996 coral gables , florida , u.s. new york city , u.s. james mclamore 30 may 1926 james mclamore.jpg james mclamore
 james whitman mclamore entrepreneur cancer
james mclamore

james whitman `` jim '' mclamore -lrb- may 30 , 1926 -- august 9 , 1996 -rrb- was with david edgerton responsible for the expansion of the burger king fast food franchise mclamore attended northfield mount hermon school before matriculating at cornell university .
mclamore was an employee and also a businessman before .
edgerton originally opened insta burger king in miami , florida on march 1 , 1954 .
three months later , on june 1 , he met mclamore and they formed the burger king corporation .
the corporation opened burger king stores and went on to introduce the whopper burger in 1957 , when it also dropped `` insta '' from the name .
the pair sold the business to pillsbury in 1967 and mclamore served as burger king 's president until 1970 , and was chairman to 1976 .
mclamore died of cancer in coral gables , florida on august 9 , 1996 , at the age of 70 .
