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	MBCA Scrapbook - H. Blair Hull, Widely-Known Engineer, Dead - October, 1942l
		H. Blair Hull, 51, widely-known inventor and research engineer for Frigidaire division of General Motors Corp., died Wednesday at 7:30 a.
		Hull spent three years following the war in France where he was in charge of refrigeration plans for the Frigidaire division of General Motors Corp. In 1921 he came to Dayton as research engineer for Frigidaire.
		Hull is in the course of his investigations has examined most of the large collections of mechanical banks throughout the country.
	www.mechanicalbanks.org /scrapbook/1940s/pages/1942_blair_hull.htm (366 words)

	M. Blair Hull (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Blair Hull was the founder, chairman, and CEO of The Hull Group, Inc. a Chicago-based securities brokerage firm.
		Hull has announced plans to seek the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in 2004, and has donated millions to aid Democratic candidates around the state in the last year.
		From 1993 through December 31, 2002, M. Blair Hull gave $757,000 to candidates for Illinois statewide constitutional and legislative office, 99% of which was contributed to Democrats.
	www.ilcampaign.org /oldsite/careerpatrons/patrons/hull.html (130 words)

	Hull's ex-wife called him violent man in divorce file - Newsday.com
		Hull initially declined to discuss the matter, but he soon faced a storm of media inquiries, as well as calls from rivals to unseal the records.
		Hull, a multimillionaire former securities trader who is on track to break all spending records for an Illinois political campaign, was leading the field of Democrats in the March 16 primary in a Tribune/WGN-TV poll conducted just before the issue erupted.
		She said she was owed that because Hull, before their second marriage, had allegedly faxed her a "promise" that should they remarry, he would give her the money if he ever refused to have sex with her or committed adultery, or if he filed for divorce within three years.
	www.newsday.com /chi-0402280192feb28,0,5700863.story (1110 words)

	Risky Business, Sound Thinking
		Blair Hull, 52, started his company in 1985 with four people and $1 million.
		On a typical day Hull traders account for 7% of the index options traded in the United States, 3% of the equity options, and 1% of the shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
		Blair Hull's forged his trading philosophy in the early 1970s, at the fljack tables in Las Vegas.
	www.fastcompany.com /magazine/08/hullbenchmark.html (881 words)

	sweet: Sweet Column: Catching up with Blair Hull. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		SUN VALLEY, Idaho -- Blair Hull is keeping a hand in politics, though at a vastly scaled-down level from his days as a $29 million self-funded Senate candidate and a mega-donor to Illinois candidates.
		Hull, who lost the 2004 Illinois Senate Democratic primary to Sen. Barack Obama -- at one point he was the front-runner -- lives in Sun Valley most of the time now.
		Before Hull had a chance to return the call, I ran into him as I ambled along the main street of Ketchum, the city adjacent to the famous ski resort.
	blogs.suntimes.com /sweet/2006/09/sweet_column_catching_up_with.html (743 words)

	Q13.com \| KCPQ TV \| Q13 FOX News \| Political novice Hull uneasy in spotlight
		Blair Hull, looking dejected after a newspaper editorial board meeting in Rockford recently, slipped into his campaign's SUV and shrugged his shoulders.
		It is a place in life that Hull would never have dreamed for himself as recently as a decade ago, when he was so removed from the political process that he wasn't even registered to vote.
		Hull won't talk about the divorce in detail, saying only that it was "contentious" and that he and Sexton are friends.
	q13.trb.com /news/chi-0402150277feb15,0,1898736.story (1416 words)

	Blair Hull Sells to Goldman Sachs - Makes Fortune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Hull was working as a trader in the pits at the Chicago Board Options Exchange when it dawned on him that he was in the wrong job.
		Hull left with a vow never to be slow again and began working on automating his trading on computers.
		Hull is an aggressive firm in this country, too; its trades account for 8 percent of the volume in U.S. equity-index options in the Standard and Poor's 500 Stock Index, the Russell 2000, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
	turtletrader.com /trader-hull.html (752 words)

	Chicago Sun-Times: Deciphering Blair Hull (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Yet, Hull, a father of three girls, is a champion of women's rights and a staunch Title IX supporter of women in sports.
		Hull's parents were children of the Depression who raised their son, Marson Blair Jr., and his sister, Jean, in rural Los Gatos, Calif. "I'm a Pearl Harbor baby," said Hull.
		Hull pulled weeds and hauled away the orchard prunings to the dump in order to buy his first bike, which cost $35 back in 1950.
	www.topcasinolist.net /article/blackjack/6778.html (942 words)

	The DuPage Democrat - February 2001
		Blair Hull, candidate for United States Senator from Illinois, will be the main speaker at the next meeting of the DuPage Democratic Club.
		Blair actively traveled with the Governor throughout the state on numerous occasions and was Co-chair of the Blagojevich campaign's Surrogate Speakers Bureau.
		Blair Hull has lived the American dream, believes in the American dream, and believes everyone should have the same opportunities that he has had.
	www.lakedemocrats.org /dupage/ddmar03.html (617 words)

	About M. Blair Hull Founder: Hull Family Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Blair Hull, chairman and chief executive officer of Matlock Capital, founded his firm on a lifelong fascination with investing and how discipline, strategy, and technology can be combined to maximize risk adjusted return.
		Hull Trading Company became one of the world's premier market-making firms and was acquired by Goldman, Sachs & Co. in 1999.
		Blair Hull served on the Board of Directors of the Chicago Board Options Exchange from 1988 to 1990 and on the Board of the Options Clearing Corporation from 1992 to 1998.
	www.hullfamilyfoundation.org /m-blair-hull.asp (410 words)

	Hull's Divorce Records Unsealed - Politics
		In them, Hull's former wife, Brenda Sexton, accused him of having a violent temper that he couldn't control, Anita Padilla reported for NBC5.
		On Feb. 9, 1998, Sexton nudged Hull on the leg with her foot and alleges "he then held one of my legs and punched me extremely hard in the left shin.
		Hull said that through it all, he trusts voters will look beyond this and make the right choice.
	www.nbc5.com /politics/2882377/detail.html (374 words)

	Chicago Reader: Hot Type
		Hull understood from the get-go that the way to win a seven-candidate race was to roll up the parts of Illinois that money could buy because nobody'd heard of anybody.
		Hull's ads started running on local TV there the same week, and Carbondale was the site of his first regional campaign office.
		Hull has done everything first in Carbondale, and sure enough the "open letter from Kristen, Jeff, Megan and Courtney Hull" ran in the Southern Illinoisan a day before it appeared in the Tribune and Sun-Times.
	www.chicagoreader.com /hottype/2004/040312_1.html (751 words)

	Ex-wife refuses to back down from Hull - baltimoresun.com
		Beleaguered U.S. Senate candidate Blair Hull on Friday produced an array of character witnesses to blunt accusations he verbally and physically abused his ex-wife Brenda Sexton, but Sexton shot back that Hull was trying to sully her reputation by suggesting she exaggerated the charges to squeeze him for money.
		Sexton said she was "shocked and hurt" to see Hull intimate in a televised debate Thursday night and again Friday in newspaper and Internet ads that she overstated claims she made in their divorce case to extract more money from him in a settlement.
		Hull, who donated nearly $260,000 to Gov. Rod Blagojevich in his 2002 campaign, even recommended Sexton for the job she now holds as head of the state film office.
	www.baltimoresun.com /chi-0403060286mar06,0,113109.story (883 words)

	TheStreet.com: Blair Hull's Next Big Gamble
		Hull, who declined to comment because of the mandatory quiet period before an offering, was featured in the book New Market Wizards as a trader who leveraged the math of fljack into an international derivatives trading firm.
		As for the equity business, Hull's filing states that the firm intends to develop Hull Transaction Services and build the unit into a provider of trade-routing and order-execution services "to capitalize on the growth in online trading." That area of the firm is a third-market equity business, where its competitors include Knight/Trimark.
		Hull's past at Nevada fljack tables, along with the way he applied those theories to options trading, has become the stuff of folklore in Chicago.
	www.thestreet.com /stocks/brokerages/749024.html (606 words)

	Gapers Block : Airbags : Profiles of Candidates for Senate: Blair Hull, Democrat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Blair Hull was an honest businessman and he has lived a life full of successes that came only after he poured his own sweat and hard work into what he was doing.
		Hull has employed a strategy much more sophisticated than any of the other candidates running from either party, one that could feasibly change the way campaigns are run in Illinois.
		Hull's low figure in Cook County is less threatening because of his recent endorsement by Rep. Gutierrez as well as his ability to advertise on television in the coming months.
	www.gapersblock.com /airbags/archives/profiles_of_candidates_for_senate_blair_hull_democrat (2211 words)

	KTLA The CW \| Where Los Angeles Lives \| Hull proves money no object in bid for Senate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Hull has tapped his vast bank finances to construct one of the most sophisticated political operations anywhere in the country this election season.
		Hull's campaign is "an exercise in the technology of politics," said David Axelrod, a consultant for one of Hull's rivals, state Sen. Barack Obama (D-Chicago).
		Blair Hull has outpaced his rivals by injecting nearly $19 million of his own money into his campaign for the Democratic nomination to the U.S. Senate.
	ktla.trb.com /chi-0402100348feb10,0,7390846.story (1414 words)

	The Carpetbagger Report > Print > Blair Hull, thanks for playing ‘Who wants to be a U.S. Senator?’ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		As if his campaign needed another controversy to doom his chances, Blair Hull, the millionaire businessman running for the Senate in Illinois, admitted yesterday to having used cocaine and sought treatment for alcohol abuse in the 1980s.
		Just a few months ago, Hull was riding high and appeared to be the likely Dem nominee in a race the Dems desperately want to win.
		As a Chicago Tribune poll showed, Hull had gone from first to distant third in a hurry.
	www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com /wp-print.php?p=1382 (333 words)

	Accusations not an issue in Blair Hull's Senate run - News
		Hull has come under fire for allegations made by ex-wife Brenda Sexton in divorce papers from 1998, when the two split for the second time.
		Hull and Sexton late last week released the papers that portray the end of the marriage as stormy and at least once violent.
		Hull and Sexton say they have worked out their differences and are now friends.
	www.dailyvidette.com /news/2004/03/03/News/Accusations.Not.An.Issue.In.Blair.Hulls.Senate.Run-624012.shtml (545 words)

	Blair Hull and Stock Trading at TradeStars + Stock Trading (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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		Blair Hull is extremely risky and can result in substantial financial losses in a very short period of time.
		I am concerned that some people may be lured into the false belief that Blair Hull is a surefire strategy to make them additional funds to the firm to avoid the forced sale of 90 days.
	www.tradestars.com /content/Blair-Hull.asp (170 words)

	Hull calls in press, then takes a hike - The Advocate
		Hull, a former securities trader, also was quizzed about his substantial financial holdings in market funds that invest in, among other interests, pharmaceutical company stocks.
		Hull has said he does not want to "re-litigate" in public a divorce from six years ago, and he has declined to directly address Sexton's allegations.
		Erkes, the Hull spokesman, declined to elaborate on the letter, particularly when asked if the children were referring to Sexton as someone who would profit by attacking Hull.
	www.stamfordadvocate.com /features/chi-0403030241mar03,0,4684999.story (769 words)

	ICPR Profile: M. Blair Hull (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Hull donated millions to aid Democratic candidates around the state in 2002 and 2003.
		Blair Hull is a career patron of Governor Rod Blagojevich (D) and Lieutenant Governor Patrick Quinn (D).
		From January 1, 1993 through June 30, 2006, M. Blair Hull gave $790,000 to candidates for Illinois statewide constitutional and legislative office, 100% of which was contributed to Democrats.
	ilcampaign.org /sunshine/patrons/profiles/Hull.asp (227 words)

	cbs2chicago.com - Hull Faces Questions of Domestic Abuse
		Hull, a former LaSalle Street commodities trader and first-time candidate, would not authorize release of records that would reveal what his ex-wife told the court when she sought that order of protection against him.
		Hull's ex-wife is now director of the Illinois State Film Office, appointed by Gov. Blagojevich after Hull gave him about $250,000 in campaign contributions.
		When we asked Hull if he had ever threatened to harm his ex-wife or ever threatened violence against her, Hull replied: “I think this is an issue, it's a private matter.
	cbs2chicago.com /topstories/local_story_050190458.html (421 words)

	Windy City Times
		Millionaire businessman Blair Hull was an early entry into the race for the Senate post from Illinois, throwing his hat into the ring before the incumbent Republican decided not to run again.
		HULL: There was some sense from a number of sources that one of the reasons [Fitzgerald] did drop out, was because he didn’t want to face me. But after that time, I realized that the reasons that I was running are still valid, and that my voice would be an effective voice in the Senate.
		HULL: I was encouraged by the fact that President Bush said he would spend $15 billion to stop the spread of AIDS.
	www.windycitymediagroup.com /gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=4007 (2297 words)

	Risk magazine - From politics to portfolios
		At the time of Goldman’s acquisition, Hull was widely regarded as among the most sophisticated market-makers on the Street, and was handling tens of thousands of transactions daily.
		Hull’s talent for producing profits was evident, though in unconventional form, after he left graduate school in 1969.
		In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Hull was one of the financial firms that broke the mould through its model-driven approach, and hiring of PhD mathematicians and physicists.
	www.risk.net /public/showPage.html?page=211705 (819 words)

	Blair Hull (D) makes Senate swing (Illinois)
		Blair Hull, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate seat now held by fellow multi-millionaire Peter Fitzgerald, stressed his roots: Fuller Brush salesman, high school math teacher, former card-carrying union member.
		Hull, the divorced father of four, has said he used $25,000 in winnings from fljack to start his trading company.
		Hull faces a crowded field for the Democratic nomination, including Illinois Comptroller Dan Hynes, state Sen. Barack Obama of Chicago, former Chicago School Board president Gery Chico, Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas and Metamora Mayor Matt O'Shea.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-gop/939660/posts (1048 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Blair Hull
		In 1985, Blair founded Hull Trading Company in Chicago, his team was made up of outstanding scientist with Phds in investing, science and mathematics.
		Hull Trading Company became one of the world’s premier market-making firms and was acquired by Goldman, Sachs & Co. in 1999 for 531 million dollars.
		The papers claimed that his ex-wife alleged that during a physical fight between them he had threatened to kill her, this led to his arrest for battery, however no charges were ever filed.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Blair_Hull (558 words)

	I'm going to talk about Blair Hull, but I have to tell you a story first (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Hull is completely unknown to the vast majority of voters.
		Hull hasn't remarried since his last divorce, so he doesn't have a ready-made defender.
		The fact that Hull didn't bother to vote for 15 years is now being used to further tar his character.
	www.thezephyr.com /miller/rmiller030404.htm (674 words)

	Blair Hull, Democrat for U.S. Senate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Blair Hull is a life long Democrat who knows the meaning of hard work.
		Although Blair Hull is independently wealthy, he understands the kind of political agenda being forced on our nation isn't good for the country.
		And unlike other politicians, Blair Hull knows the issues and is committed to making his solutions work.
	www.blairhull.com /m-blair-hull.html (296 words)

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