About H. L. Hunt
Haroldson Lafayette Hunt Jr. was an American oil tycoon and the founding patriarch of the Hunt business dynasty. 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. He acquired rights to East Texas oil lands initially through a $30,000 land purchase from oil speculator Columbus Marion Joiner, and founded Hunt Oil in 1936.
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