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Haela Hunt-Hendrix (granddaughter) Haroldson Lafayette Hunt Jr. (February 17, 1889 – November 29, 1974) was an American oil tycoon. [1] By trading poker winnings for oil rights according to legend, but more likely through money he gained from successful speculation in oil leases, he ultimately secured title to much of the East Texas Oil Field ...
H. L. Hunt knew only too well that grass witherith, but he tried to forestall the aging process as long as he could.
Hunt was a highly successful businessman who founded the Hunt Oil Company in 1936. Eventually the company became the largest independent oil producer in the United States. Over the years he acquired the rights to much of the East Texas Oil Fields—one of the world's largest oil deposits.
H. L. Hunt (born Feb. 17, 1889, Ramsey, Ill., U.S.—died Nov. 29, 1974, Dallas, Texas) was an American founder of a multibillion dollar oil business who promoted his ultraconservative political views on his own radio program. Hunt speculated in cotton properties until 1920.
May 23, 2018 · H. L. Hunt (1889-1974) was an entrepreneur who built a financial empire from a small early investment in oil in Arkansas. In his later years he was perhaps the world's richest man.
Feb 1, 1995 · H. L. Hunt, oil tycoon, the youngest of eight children of Haroldson Lafayette and Ella Rose (Myers) Hunt, was born in Carson Township, Fayette County, Illinois, on February 17, 1889. He was educated at home.
Haroldson Lafayette Hunt Jr. (February 17, 1889 – November 29, 1974) was an American oil tycoon. By trading poker winnings for oil rights according to legend, but more likely through money he gained from successful speculation in oil leases, he ultimately secured title to much of the East Texas Oil Field, one of the world's largest oil ...
Sep 16, 2008 · In the late 1940s, the press informed an astonished America that some of its wealthiest citizens were a group of oilmen that included H. L. Hunt, Clint Murchison, and Hugh Roy Cullen. Another of...
Nov 30, 1974 · DALLAS, Nov. 29—H. L. Hunt, the oilman who was one of the world's richest men, died here today at Baylor University Medical Center. He was 85 years old, a militant anti‐Communist and an ...
Aug 30, 1986 · H. L. Hunt made enough money to build a mansion and lose as much as $30,000 a night in the town's 24-hour-a-day poker games. And when overdrilling brought on a...
