| LC control no. | n 85329320 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Pickens, T. Boone (Thomas Boone) |
| Variant(s) | Pickens, Thomas Boone, Jr. |
| Located | Amarillo (Tex.) Dallas (Tex.) |
| Birth date | 1928-05-22 |
| Death date | 2019-09-11 |
| Place of birth | Holdenville (Okla.) |
| Place of death | Dallas (Tex.) |
| Field of activity | Petroleum industry and trade Energy industries Investments |
| Affiliation | Mesa Petroleum Co. BP Capital |
| Profession or occupation | Businesspeople |
| Found in | His Boone, 1987: CIP t.p. (T. Boone Pickens, Jr.) galleys (Thomas Boone Pickens, Jr.; lives in Amarillo, Tex.; head, Mesa Petroleum) LC database, Sept. 13, 2019 (access point: Pickens, T. Boone (Thomas Boone); usage: T. Boone Pickens, Jr.; T. Boone Pickens) Washington post WWW site, viewed Sept. 13, 2019 (T. Boone Pickens, a Texas oil tycoon who helped usher in the era of hostile takeovers and corporate "greenmail" in the 1980s, and who later became an influential voice on environmentally sound energy policy, died Sept. 11 [2019] at his home in Dallas. He was 91. In 2018, he closed BP Capital, his energy hedge fund. A prosperous wildcatter in his 20s, he spent much of his career as president and board chairman of Mesa Petroleum. Mr. Pickens became known as a spokesman for shareholders, many of them pensioners and retirees, who showered the oilman with fan mail. The groundswell of popular support led Mr. Pickens to found the United Shareholders Association in 1986. Thomas Boone Pickens Jr. was born in Holdenville, Okla., on May 22, 1928. With two partners, he started Amarillo-based Petroleum Exploration. In 1964, he took the company public under the name Mesa Petroleum) |
| Associated language | eng |
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