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  H. L. Hunt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hunt was born near Ramsey, in Carson Township, Fayette County, Illinois, the youngest of eight children.
Following his death in 1974, H. Hunt was buried in the Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery in Dallas, Texas.
Nelson Bunker Hunt (born 1926) attempted to corner the world silver market in 1979, and was convicted of conspiring to manipulate the market.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/H._L._Hunt   (482 words)

  
 Hunt Oil History Window
Hunt Oil's first important international success was achieved in 1976 with the company's participation in a major discovery in the North Sea, the Beatrice field.
This led Hunt to the Republic of Yemen, an ancient nation with rugged geography believed by most to be devoid of oil despite its location on the oil-rich Arabian Peninsula.
Hunt currently has substantial drilling activities underway in the Gulf and recently, through its participation with BP, a significant find was made in the Mississippi Canyon Block 29.
www.huntoil.com /history.asp   (992 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online:
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.
Hunt is in the famous photograph that immortalizes the drill test for Daisy Bradford No. 3 and the opening of the East Texas oilfield.
Hunt apparently shipped her off to New York and in 1941 provided trusts for each of the four children.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/HH/fhu59.html   (690 words)

  
 HedgedFund   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
As the son of the late H. Hunt, the eccentric and iras­cible Texas oil billionaire, Bunker is still driven to prove himself a money­maker in his old man’s image.
The property of H. L.’s second family, the Circle K is a 2500-acre spread locat­ed east of Dallas.
Com­bined with the Hunts’ earlier purchases, this gave the group ownership of 62 per­cent of the stock in the Comex warehouse and 26 percent of the stock in the Board of Trade’s vaults.
www.hedgedfund.org /Article/silverfinger.htm   (13108 words)

  
 H.L. Hunt's Boys and the Circle K Cowboys - Print Version
H.L. Hunt was born in Illinois where his father moved after the Civil War (or War of Northern Aggression as we like to call it) to escape the hardships of reconstruction.
Hunt was dogged for years in and out of court in East Texas by Dad Joiner and others who claimed H.L. cheated them out of their leases but when it was all over H.L. came out on top.
The Hunts claimed that other large families did the same thing to get around the 3 million-bushel limit but since the Hunts were conservatives and were not part of the Eastern liberal crowd they were being unfairly targeted.
www.gold-eagle.com /editorials_04/laborde012704pv.html   (3834 words)

  
 Hunt Oil - dKosopedia
Hunt Oil Company is one of the largest privately held independent oil companies in the world.
The Hunt Oil Company began when H.L. Hunt became involved in the Arkansas oil boom of the 1920s.
Hunt continues extensive U.S. exploration and drilling activities while increasing its activities on the international scene.
www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Hunt_Oil   (841 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt dead at 74
Hunt, a founder of the American Football League and one of the driving forces behind the AFL-NFL merger, died at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas of complications from prostate cancer, Chiefs spokesman Bob Moore said.
Hunt didn't need to make money – his father was an oil wildcatter who was often referred to as the richest man in the world.
In 1972, Hunt became the first AFL figure to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and each year the Lamar Hunt Trophy goes to the winner of the NFL's American conference.
www.signonsandiego.com /sports/nfl/20061213-2209-fbn-obit-hunt.html   (960 words)

  
 Haroldson L. Hunt
The Hunts and the Murchisons present the images of different versions of right-wing politics, with the Hunts allied to opponents of Washington, particularly when they were supporting southern resisters to integration, and the Murchisons playing their connections to Washington, Johnson, and Hoover, for all they were worth.
Hunt is not only by far the richest of all the Texas oil millionaires but he is also, and more importantly, the one with the most pronounced and most vicious spleen.
Hunt was scared to death, and for apparently good reason, for Earl Warren had, immediately after the assassination, publicly expressed the opinion that this foul deed was the work of right-wing extremists.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JFKhuntHL.htm   (2523 words)

  
 Hunt, pioneer in AFL and NFL, dies at 74
Tom Hunt said the move to Kansas City was influenced by a weekend baseball series there between the New York Yankees and the Kansas City Athletics in the late 1950s.
Hunt, Cowboys president Tex Schramm and NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle secretly hammered out an agreement: There would be a world championship game after 1966, and the 10 AFL teams would be absorbed into the NFL beginning in 1970.
Hunt's tennis organization folded in 1990 when the Association of Tennis Professionals was formed, freezing the WCT out, but Hunt never expressed bitterness.
www.azcentral.com /sports/cardinals/articles/1213hunt-ON.html   (2521 words)

  
 Texas Monthly September 2001: Bunker Hunt
Hunt was born in 1889 in Illinois, the son of a prosperous farmer-entrepreneur.
Caroline Rose Hunt, 78, owns a chain of chic hotels, including the Mansion on Turtle Creek and the Hotel Crescent Court, both in Dallas; Forbes estimates her net worth to be $600 million.
Helen Lakelly Hunt, 52, is a pastoral counselor in Dallas.
www.texasmonthly.com /mag/issues/2001-09-01/business3.php   (1580 words)

  
 News for Austin, Texas | kvue.com | KVUE Sports
Hunt, the impetus behind the creation of the American Football League, was inducted into the football, tennis and soccer halls of fame, as well as the Texas Business Hall of Fame.
Hunt, owner of the Kansas City Chiefs, was widely known for his prowess as a sports entrepreneur, longtime friends knew him as a kind-hearted family man and friend.
Hunt and his love for soccer is FC Dallas’ Frisco home, the 20,500-seat Pizza Hut Park, which opened in 2005.
www.kvue.com /sports/stories/121406kvuehuntdies-eh.afa4db8.html   (2560 words)

  
 History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Hunt Realty's predecessor, founded in the early 1970's, was Woodbine Development Corporation - which is, today, one of our portfolio operating partnerships.
Hunt Realty Corporation was established in 1991 as a wholly owned Hunt subsidiary to project the Hunt philosophy, relationships and resources to create a diversified real estate investment portfolio.
The core business of the Hunt family, Hunt Oil Company, was founded by the late H.L. Hunt in 1934, using the original east Texas oil field to provide its financial base.
www.huntrealty.com /history.asp   (236 words)

  
 NewMexiKen: H.L. Hunt…
Hunt was a Texas oil tycoon who, among other things, fathered 14 children with three women, including two that he was married to simultanously.
Lamar Hunt, the son of H.L., was one of the founders of the American Football League and owner of the Dallas Texans (who became the Kansas City Chiefs).
His father, the legendary H.L. Hunt, had a fortune estimated at $600 million, which may not seem all that impressive in today’s era of billionaires but made him one of the nation’s richest men at the time.
newmexiken.com /archives/2004/02/00516.php   (366 words)

  
 Bunker Waldorf Hunt aka Silver Fingers
In his will, H. left all of his stock in Hunt Oil-about 80 percent of the company’s shares-to his second wife, Ruth; and he named 31-year-old Ray L. Hunt, his son by Ruth.
Hunt Oil still serv­iced the accounts of the first family- owned companies such as Placid Oil and Penrod Drilling, but the oil and real-estate properties still technically a part of Hunt Oil amounted to only $300000000, or about one tenth of what the first family had already gotten.
By bringing Bunker Hunt and Mahfouz together in the winter of 1978, Connally was performing one of his most fabled functions-that of deal maker.
www.sharelynx.com /papers/BunkerHunt.php   (12687 words)

  
 How H.L. Hunt viewed utopia - Dallas Business Journal:
Five years later, Hunt was worth $100 million, which today is worth roughly $1.2 billion.
Hunt lived in peaceful obscurity until the late 1940s, when Life magazine revealed him to be among the world's richest men.
The perfect society, according to Hunt, would give the most votes to the oldest, the wealthiest and the most ambitious.
dallas.bizjournals.com /dallas/stories/2000/09/25/editorial3.html   (642 words)

  
 KWTX | Praise Flows For NFL Pioneer Lamar Hunt
Hunt grew up in Dallas, the son of Texas oilman H. Hunt.
He was the energy, really, that put together half of the league, and then he was the key person in merging the two leagues together.
It's just something very special and when the books are written, the book on American soccer is going to have chapters on Lamar Hunt and what he did both in the past and the present for the game here." - MLS commissioner Don Garber.
www.kwtx.com /home/headlines/4916646.html   (754 words)

  
 Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt dead at 74
Lamar Hunt, the pro sports visionary who owned the Kansas City Chiefs and came up with the term "Super Bowl," died Wednesday night.
Hunt, who came from a famous and wealthy Texas family, died in a Dallas hospital of complications from prostate cancer, Chiefs spokesman Bob Moore said.
Hunt battled cancer for several years and was admitted into hospital the day before the U.S. Thanksgiving with a partially collapsed lung.
www.cbc.ca /sports/football/story/2006/12/14/lamar-hunt.html   (1196 words)

  
 Ray Lee Hunt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ray Lee Hunt (1943-) inherited most of father's H.L. Hunt Hunt Oil Co. along with his three sisters.
In 1982, Forbes magazine estimated Ray Hunt's family's total net worth to be $200 million.
It took two years for Hunt, partnering with other companies, to lay a pipeline and build a refinery for the oil.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ray_Hunt   (120 words)

  
 Hunt :: H : Gourt
A hunt is an activity during which humans or animals chase some prey, such as wild or specially bread animals (traditionally targeted species are known as game), in order to catch or kill them, either for food, sale, or as a form of sport.
It may also, at least since circa 1200, take the less bloodthirsty form of a search for a target that can, unlike a hunting prey, remain unheard, as in specific compounds such as scavenger hunt or treasure hunt.
Lamar Hunt (born 1932), American sportsman, son of H.
reference.gourt.com /Biography/H/Hunt.html   (302 words)

  
 Hunt Oil Company, Schema-Root news   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
After the first year of the old American Football League, Hunt's oil-baron father, HL Hunt, one of the richest men in the world, was asked by a friend:...
DALLAS - As an heir to the Hunt Oil Co. fortune, June Hunt could be doing most anything she wants or nothing at all.
The family of an oil worker killed during a rescue attempt after being taken hostage off the coast of Nigeria have spoken of their "devastation" at his...
schema-root.org /commerce/corporations/petroleum/hunt_oil   (860 words)

  
 Mullineaux Lab - People
2005 Mullineaux L.S., S.W. Mills, A.K. Sweetman, A.H. Beaudreau, A. Metaxas, H.L. Hunt.
The roles of predation and postlarval transport in recruitment of the soft shell clam Mya arenaria.
Mills, S.W., L.S. Mullineaux and Paul A. Tyler.
www.whoi.edu /science/B/people/lmullineaux/Susan.htm   (364 words)

  
 Jan 28 H.L. Hunt's Boys and the Circle K Cowboys Larry LaBorde 321gold
At the head of the major oil companies were the Hunts arch enemies, the Rockafellers.
Bunker felt that the Washington - New York Eastern establishment was being led down the road to socialism by the Rockafellers.
Bunker called Herbert and simply said, "Shut it down." Herbert promptly told his broker the following morning that they could not meet their $135 million dollar margin call that day.
www.321gold.com /editorials/laborde/laborde012904.html   (3802 words)

  
 H. L. Hunt
Son: Hugh Hunt (founder of Constructivist Foundation, b.
Son: Lamar Hunt (owner of the Kansas City Chiefs football team, b.
Son: Ray Lee Hunt (CEO of Hunt Oil, b.
www.nndb.com /people/554/000055389   (101 words)

  
 Lamar Hunt Dead - Register Free, Access All
The death of Lamar Hunt brings to mind a story I was told about the Dallas Texans first year in the league.
A reporter who was investigating the fiancial viability of the young AFL went to H. Hunt for his reaction to Lamar's reported loss of $1 million in the first year.
"You mean to tell me that Lamar lost a million dollars in just one year." the elder Hunt inquired.
www.nflfans.com /x/showthread.php?p=100287   (147 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Three Families of H.L. Hunt: Books: Ardis Burst   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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 How Wall Street Covered for H.L.'s Boys (The Nation, June 6, 1981)
Reports on the complaint of H.L. Hunt family of Dallas that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission damaged their personal and business reputations during the investigation of their silver dealings.
Fame gained by H.L. Hunt; Responsibility of maintaining Hunt's reputation shared by two sons Nelson Bunker Hunt and W. Herbert Hunt.
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www.thenation.com /archive/detail/11214365   (108 words)

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