Steve Jobs died 10 years ago this October. Now, a decade later, Apple's co-founder and former CEO is set to be memorialized in a National Garden of American Heroes.
An executive order, issued Monday by outgoing President Donald Trump, seeks to pay tribute to a variety of late American figures, or those who made an indelible contribution to American life. Trump announced the garden last summer.
Steve Jobs: Timeless Exceptionalism
Alongside Jobs, additional names include aviation pioneers the Wright Brothers, inventors Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., lawyer and associate justice of the Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and more.
Jobs---and the others---will be commemorated with a special statue as part of the tribute. A site for the garden will be announced in the future.
"The National Garden will be built to reflect the awesome splendor of our country's timeless exceptionalism," Trump's executive order states. "It will be a place where citizens, young and old, can renew their vision of greatness and take up the challenge that I gave every American in my first address to Congress."
A Brief History of Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs co-founded Apple in 1976 with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. He left Apple in 1985, and spent the next decade working at NeXT and Pixar. He returned to Apple in the late 1990s, as part of an acquisition of NeXT by Apple. Jobs was quickly named interim CEO---only for him to drop the "interim" title and stay on full-time.
With the exception of a couple of medical leaves of absence, Jobs remained at Apple as CEO until stepping down in August 2011. He was replaced by Tim Cook in the role. Jobs passed away October 5, 2011 at the age of 56, as a result of pancreatic cancer.
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