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The Hunt family is an American business family based in Texas. They are most famous for their involvement in the energy industry via their creation and leadership of the Hunt Oil Company, Hunt Petroleum and Hunt Energy. Forbes estimates the family's net worth at $24.8 billion. [2]
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, one of the world's largest oil deposits.
As legend goes, Haroldson Lafeyette Hunt Jr., born in Illinois 1889, founded Hunt Oil in 1936 through leases and rights he acquired in the oil fields of East Texas.
Hunt was born on February 19, 1965. [6] He is the son of Norma and Lamar Hunt and the grandson of oil tycoon H.L. Hunt. [3] [4] [7] His father founded the Chiefs in 1960 as the Dallas Texans, a charter member of the American Football League, and moved them to Kansas City two years before Clark was born.
In 1959, Lamar Hunt (b. 1932, d. 2006), the son of an oil tycoon H. L. Hunt, founded a new football league (the American Football League) and a new football team called the Dallas Texans—after ...
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Hunt was born in El Dorado, Arkansas, but lived most of his life in Dallas, Texas. [4] He was the son of Lyda Bunker and oil tycoon H. L. Hunt, who set up Placid Oil, once one of the biggest independent oil companies, [5] He had six siblings: Margaret Hunt Hill (1915–2007), H. L. Hunt III (1917–2005), Caroline Rose Hunt (1923–2018), Lyda Bunker Hunt (born and died in 1925), William ...
The Hunt family celebrated New Year's Eve away from the cold Kansas City weather. In a photo posted by Gracie, 25 and the oldest of the Hunt siblings, on Jan. 1, each of the family members dressed ...