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Conrad Nicholson "Nicky" Hilton Jr. (1926–1969), m. Patricia "Trish" McClintock. He was also the first husband of Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011; m. 1950, div. 1951), though they had no children together. Conrad Nicholson Hilton, III (b. 1960) Michael Otis Hilton (b. 1961), m. Babita Hilton.
Conrad Nicholson "Nicky" Hilton Jr. (July 6, 1926 – February 5, 1969) was an American socialite, hotel heir, and businessman. He was the eldest son of Hilton Hotels founder Conrad Hilton and the first husband of actress Elizabeth Taylor .
- Building The Foundation
- Conrad Hilton – Politician, Banker, Soldier, Banker
- Conrad Hilton, Texas Hotelier
- Conrad Hilton, The Builder
- Surviving The Great Depression
- Coming Back After The Fall
- The (Hotel) Battle of Chicago
- Big Business, Big Trophy
- Bigger and Broader
- Conrad Hilton’s Operating Rules
Augustus H. Hilton, born in Norway in 1854, came to the United States seeking new frontiers. Coming through Iowa, he found those frontiers in the dry, isolated village of San Antonio, New Mexico Territory, when he arrived in the 1880s, just after the Santa Fe Railroad came to town. He had also fallen in love with Mary Laufersweiler of Fort Dodge, I...
The ambitious young man became the youngest member of the new New Mexico State Legislature when it was formed in 1912, elected as a Republican. His father had supported his opponent, as he wanted Connie to stay home and work in the store. While Connie served on eight committees and introduced nineteen bills (nine of which passed), he soon grew frus...
Connie and his partner and first manager, L. M. Drown, slept in the office of the Mobley because they could rent out their beds to guests. They sat in their desk chairs and did not sleep well. In the middle of one night, Connie awoke with an idea, and drug the drowsy Drown out into the lobby. “Look at all this wasted space!” he cried. Drown thought...
Connie continued to buy old run-down hotels around Texas and fix them up, but he finally tired of this and decided he needed to build one of his own. He found the right site, at Main and Harwood in downtown Dallas, to build the first true Hilton Hotel, but needed a million dollars to build it. Having become an expert at creative financing, he convi...
Travel, and with it the hotel business, collapsed during the Depression. It has been estimated that 80 percent of the hotels in the United States went bankrupt, were foreclosed, or were re-organized under bankruptcy and other laws. Connie, with debt payments, interest payments, and lease payments which were fixed and did not go down, scrambled to h...
Perhaps the Depression was a blessing in disguise for Conrad Hilton, because it meant that the hotel market was distressed, and many hotels were for sale cheap. He bought the Paso del Norte in El Paso and the Gregg in Longview. In 1937, he made his first move outside of Texas by buying the historic Sir Francis Drake near Union Square in downtown Sa...
As World War II came to an end, the War Department no longer needed the Stevens, now a rough barracks stripped of all furnishings, its elegant ballrooms in decay. The government put it up for sale. Here Connie made one of his few mistakes. He figured “no sensible hotel man would bid enough to get the hotel.” So he did not bid. He would bide his tim...
In May 1946, the Hilton Hotels Corporation was created. All Connie’s partners in the various deals received common or preferred stock for their interests. But Connie gave the Longview, Texas, Hilton to his managers, with the purchase price paid out of the hotel’s earnings. He figured they deserved something for their many sacrifices for him and the...
While it can be said with some truth that Conrad Hilton built the first great American hotel chain, the same might be said of Ellsworth M. Statler. Beginning by operating temporary hotels at the World’s Expositions in Buffalo and St. Louis in the first decade of the twentieth century, Statler went on to build a highly regarded chain of big city hot...
In his 1957 autobiography, Be My Guest, Connie spelled out the company’s key ideas: 1. Each hotel has its own personality. 2. Forecasting—knowing the seasonality of the business and adjusting accordingly. 3. Mass purchasing for the whole chain to save money. 4. Digging for gold—finding “waste space” and wringing profits out of it. 5. Training, incl...
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May 6, 2013 · Conrad Nicholson Hilton III, whose grandfather Conrad Hilton founded the global hotel company, was booked into the Palm Beach County Jail just before 7 a.m. Sunday, according to the Palm...
Conrad Nicholson Hilton III, 53, whose grandfather Conrad Hilton founded the global hotel company, was booked into the Palm Beach County Jail on Sunday morning, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. Hilton, of West Palm Beach, is a cousin of socialite Paris Hilton.
May 7, 2013 · Conrad Nicholson Hilton III, 53, whose grandfather Conrad Hilton founded the global hotel company, was booked into the Palm Beach County Jail on Sunday morning, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. Hilton, of West Palm Beach, is a cousin of socialite Paris Hilton.
Jun 16, 1986 · When Conrad Nicholson Hilton, the hotel magnate, died seven years ago, he left an eloquent tribute to his philanthropic philosophy: charity, not his children, were to receive the bulk of his...
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